Lot 619: HUDECEK Antonin (14. 1. 1872 Loucka near Dudyne

HUDECEK Antonin (14. 1. 1872 Loucka near Dudyne nad Ohri - 11. 8. 1941 Castolovice) Lake in the Tatra mountains Oil on cardboard, 48 x 62 cm, framed, undated, signed lower right. Czech landscape painter, pupil of M. Pirner and V. Brozik at the Academy of Arts in Prague. Together with A. Slavicek he belongs to artists whose work reflects the changes in Czech landscape painting at the turn of the 19th century. Initially he was influenced by Symbolism and later by Impressionism, gradually he became concerned with realist features, but in his paintings he still focused on colour and colour patches. See T 1/386, TD 77, V 2/500, TB 18/33, B 5/649, NECVU 1/291.