HUDEČEK, Antonín - b. 1872 Loucká u Ředhoště, d. 1941 Častolovice - WGA

HUDEČEK, Antonín

(b. 1872 Loucká u Ředhoště, d. 1941 Častolovice)

Czech painter. In 1887-89 and 1893-95 he studied at the art academy in Prague under Maxmilian Pirner (1854-1924) and Václav Brožík (1851-1901). In 1891-93 he studied at the Academy in Munich with Otto Seitz (1846-1912). From 1897 he painted Impressionist landscapes in Bohemia, especially mountain scenery. He became friends with Antonín Slavíček.

In 1900 he had a one-man exhibition in Vienna, in 1901 he exhibited at the Wertheim department store in Berlin. He exhibited for the first time with the Mánes artists’ federation in Prague in 1902. Later years he traveled in Italy, in the Austrian Alps.

A Stream in Sunshine
A Stream in Sunshine by

A Stream in Sunshine

This painting by Hudeċek gives its full attention to effects of light.

Quiet Evening
Quiet Evening by

Quiet Evening

This painting is pointillist in its handling of the grassy slope but Neo-Romantic in its atmospherics, which inform the composition and colours and insist on a rhythm of curves (as in the tree reflections in the lake, or the slender tree trunks at left) such as was characteristic of heavily stylised European art at the turn of the century.

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