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An Ambassador of
Cavtat: Vlaho Bukovac (1855 - 1922) |
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Vlaho
Bukovac |
Until he passed away in Prague on April 23,
1922 Vlaho Bukovac painted about 400
portraits and 150+ other paintings.
Generally, Vlaho's work is divided into
four periods:
Cavtat
(1877 - 1893)
After the conflict with Isidor Krsnjavi
(Minister of Culture and Education), Vlaho
returned to his native Cavtat.He added a
floor on the west side of his house and
turned it into an atelier. Here he
experimented with the new means of
expression and new color solutions.
The Prague
(1903 - 1922)
Vlaho was a professor at the Academy of
Prague. Czech historians of art credit him
with being an outstanding pedagogue and for
bringing the technique of pointillism to the
Academy.
Bogišić
Supilo
Pattiera |
Realist painter Vlaho Bukovac, one of the
four children to a mother from Dubrovnik and
a father of Italian origin (Vlaho's
grandfather Giuseppe Faggioni emigrated from
Genoa), was born in Cavtat on July 4, 1855.
Even during his early childhood he showed
inclination to painting but could not afford
to continue his education.
At the age of eleven Vlaho traveled to the
United States with his uncle (who died soon
after). Vlaho returned to Cavtat in 1871 and
embarked as a cadet on a sailing ship.
He landed in Peru in 1873 and worked as a
letter drawer in a coach factory till 1876
when he again returned to Cavtat.
Medo Pucić, a poet, recognized Vlaho's
talent and recommended him to the archbishop
Strossmayer, quite an influential figure in
Croatia at the time. In 1877 Vlaho presented
Strossmayer with his painting "Turkinja u
haremu" (Turkish Woman in Harem) signed with
the name Bukovac. All his subsequent works
were signed as such.
Aided by
Strossmayer's sponsorship, Vlaho soon after
enrolled in the École des Beaux Arts. He
studied under a well known portrait painter
and a representative of the Paris academism,
Alexander Cabanel. Vlaho graduated from the
program in 1880 and spent the next decade
exhibiting in Paris.
In 1892, at
the age of 37, he married Jelica Petranovic
from Dubrovnik. Jelica and the children
frequently modeled for him. |
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