Original Oil Painting by Artist Vaclav Vytlacil-Signed Front and Back
I purchased this painting in the early nineties, later I took it into the Art Students League, NYC and later to Sotheby’s Auction House in NYC and it was authenticated by both. I note that Vaclav Vytlacil did a Sketch on the back of the canvas and there is a hand print as well as his signature, I guarantee it's authenticity. This is an important work of art, it is "Expressionism, Impressionism" by an acclaimed Artist and Instructor "Vaclav Vytlacil"- the painting is 30" wide by 40" long and on a stretcher that is stamped "Glendale, NY" there is the name on the top of the stretcher "Seymour". There is also writing in pencil of a previous owner but I can't make it out with a date of 1945 it is very light and worn, I state all of this so that everything related to this painting is disclosed.
During the 1940s and 1950s there was a new found freedom in Vaclav Vytlacil's paintings in which energy replaced form as primary concern, and his subjects include landscapes, still life, and the human figure—possessed a spontaneity unsuspected from his earlier work. Artist Vaclav Vytlacil divided his time between Paris, Capri, and Positano. In 1931, he took a five-year lease on a villa in Positano and opened an informal school. He returned to New York in 1935, and the following year helped found the American Abstract Artists. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, he taught at a variety of places—the Art Students League, Queens College in New York, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and other art schools. In 1946, he rejoined the faculty of the Art Students League and remained there until his retirement in 1978. It was in 1923 that Vaclav Vytlacil first met Hans Hoffman in Munich in fact Vaclav Vytlacil was among the earliest and most influential advocates of Hans Hoffman's teachings in the United States. Vaclav Vytlacil, had already completed his art studies and had been teaching art for five years. Vaclav Vytlacil immediately grasped the significance of Hans Hofmann's ideas, he stated "I quickly realized, that this is what I had been searching for".
Vaclav Vytlacil was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, Vytlacil took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, afterwards he returned to New York at the age of 20. Because of his talent he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League 1913 to 1916, and Vytlacil worked under John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent).
Vaclav Vytlacil would later take a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, through the year 1921. This position enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cezannes paintings and works of the Old Masters. While in Europe Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. In Munich, he was introduced to the famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant.
During the summer of 1928, after returning to the U.S., Vytlacil was invited to give lectures at the Univ. of California, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe in an effort to persuade Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and assisted in the founding of the American Abstract Artists. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA; Black Mountain College in NC; and the Art Students League.
His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism and his figurative paintings are ripe with expressionism of the 1940‘s. His earlier paintings from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cezanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacils works are included in collections at the Art Students League in NYC; the; the University of Notre Dame Art Gallery in Indiana; the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in NYC, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Photograph of Vaclav Vytlacil
Oil Painting-30"w by 40"l-Artist Vaclav Vytlacil
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