Jakub schikaneder

Jakub Schikaneder (1855–1924, Czech Republic) Paintings 2 Schikaneder is a Czech painter known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood. His paintings often feature poor and...

Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924) was a painter from Bohemia. Schikaneder is known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood. His paintings often feature poor and outcast figures. Other motifs favoured by Schikaneder were autumn and winter, corners and alleyways in the city of Prague and the banks of the Vltava – often in the early evening light, or cloaked in mist. His first well-known work was the monumental painting Repentance of the Lollards (2.5m × 4m, lost). The National…

The entire artistic output of Jakub Schikaneder is permeated by a sombre mood, bordering in places on a tragic existential feeling. In his oeuvre, the theme of a dead woman’s lifeless body appears recurrently from the early 1880s. However, this subject was not Schikaneder’s invention but a popular art formula of his time, symbolising ruin, despair and decay. In a study for this painting, the body of the murdered woman lies in the same, although reversed, position as the drowned woman. In…

Evening Prague, 1902-1905, Jakub Schikaneder. (1854 - 1922)

A similar spirit is present in his painting Evening Mood. Between 1910 and 1920 a number of works were produced inspired by the Vltava. Typical of the final period of the artist’s creative life is fascination with the sea, particularly during his stay on

View 6 Works: By the Bed, By the Coffin, The Drowned Woman, Figure Amongst the Trees By Schikaneder Jakub; Charcoal on handmade paper; Largest: 24 x 32 cm.; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Evening in the Garden, 1907–09

Art History Gallery sur Instagram : Jakub Schikaneder (1855–1924): Murder in the House, 1890, oil on canvas, 203 x 321 cm, National Gallery in Prague . . At the turn of the…

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