Lot 143

Martin Salcman (1896 - 1979) HAFEN

Martin Salcman studied on Academy of Fine arts and then became a professor at Pedagogical college in Prague. His students remember him as peculiar element who made them look at modern art in wide perspective and full context - from Socrates to Husserl. He painted meditative landscapes, portraits and figural compositions with a distinctive use of compact colour surfaces. While developing the topic he reduces form into indefinite contours and landscape into basic distinguishable shapes. Details of ships are rather a matter of imagination and taste than his own artistic expression. His early works from 1920s are influenced by František Tichý and Václav Rabas.