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Boy's Head Against the Landscape Background

Wlastimil Hofman

Basic information

ID: Ж-338
Author: Wlastimil Hofman
Name: Boy's Head Against the Landscape Background
Date of creation: 20th c.
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 35 x 59.8 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture symbolic art
Provenance: the Badeni collection

Information about author

Author: Wlastimil Hofman
Author in the original: Vlastimil Hofmann, Wlastimil Hofman
Artist's lifetime: 1881–1970
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland
Biography: Wlastimil Hofman was a Polish-Czech artist. He was born on April 27, 1881, in Karlin (Prague district), Austria-Hungary. He was one of the most famous European painters of the Art Nouveau style, and a representative of Symbolism. From 1889, he worked in Krakow, where from 1896 he studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Jacek Malczewski, Leon Jan Wyczolkowski, and Jan Stanislawski. Between 1899 and 1901, he studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. The works of the Symbolist artist Jacek Malczewski had a great influence on Hofmann’s oeuvre; they remained friends until the artist's death. The painter died on March 6, 1970, in Szklarska Poreba, Poland.

Object description

This is a bust-length image of a boy depicted in the right-hand profile against the background of a green field and a blue cloudy sky. Holding a pencil in his raised right hand, the boy stares intently at the figure of the saint woman in the middle of the field, near which a small thin tree is depicted.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right there is an author's inscription "Vlastimil Hofmann".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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