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Bear hunting
Julian Fałatca. 1890
The Polish Museum in Rapperswil
Rapperswil, Switzerland
This is a black and white sketch for the famous painting “Spearmen” of 1890.
Details
- Title: Bear hunting
- Creator: Julian Fałat (1853-1929)
- Date Created: ca. 1890
- Physical Dimensions: 44 x 33.5 cm
- Provenance: In the collection of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil since 1972 (a gift from Julian Godlewski from Lugano).
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Watercolor on canvas
- About the author: Julian Fałat, (1853 Tuligłowy near Lviv – 1929 Bystra), One of the most prominent representatives of the Polish modern art, a Modernist of the Young Poland, an eminent painter-landscapist. He studied in the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and architecture at the Technical University in Zurich. The thing that had an essential impact on his individual style was travelling around Europe and his voyage around the world in 1885, when he got to know and was fascinated by the Japanese culture and the watercolour technique. He was a talented draughtsman and illustrator for Warsaw magazines, in the years 1886–1895 he was a painter of the Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1895 he was appointed as a director of the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, which he reformed and transformed into the Academy in 1900. The artist’s craftsmanship evolved from the realistic convention, through brightening the colour palette, the use of sketchy texture and value modelling under the impressionist influence, decorativeness of colour stain and stylised line close to Art Nouveau, up to the simplified form in the spirit of Japanese minimalism. In the 1890s he was invited to visit Teresa Silberstein’s estate in Lisowice.
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