Lot 193

Jaroslav Panuška (1872 - 1958) VIEW FROM THE BŘEZINKA NEAR SVĚTLÁ NAD SÁZAVOU

Jaroslav Panuška completely adopted the virtuoso landscape style from his teacher Julius Mařák. He excelled in authentic depictions of various moods and light situations in the landscape, which also recorded his efforts to create fairy-tale landscapes full of ghosts, watermen and skeletons. Panuška clung to his love of nature for a lifetime and began painting simple motifs from the open countryside at the Prague Academy around 1893. After two decades of leaning towards symbolism, on which well-known fairy-tale and haunting scenes are based, after 1920 he again focused on motifs from the Czech countryside. The landscape with fresh, relaxed colors presented here also comes from this area of creation. Panuška is considered to be the most original pupil of Mařák's famous school, who in his work combines an older realistic tradition with more modern impressionist methods of painting.