Adolf J. Alex/GREETING Barin’s wife BY domestic servants/ ORIGINAL ETCHING 1923

Description: Adolf J. Alex/Barin’s wife in her estate with her domestic servants/ ORIGINAL ETCHING 1923 Specification Continent: #Europa #Czechoslowakia Motiv: #book illustration of Eugene Onegin edition 1923 on behalf of 100 Anniversary of the first edition of one #yang lady in her estate #serfdom in Russia Artist’s Main Feature: #The Bohemian-born professional artist of the highest calibre ADOLF JELÍNEK ALEX (1890-1957) was a resourceful Czech engraver, an astute painter and creative writer. After graduating from the Prague School of Arts, Architecture and Design he attended the Munich Academy of Fine Art to have his teacher a German sagacious artist prof. Janka. Well-educated in Munich he has formed as a maturer artist in Prag only to at Prague Fine Art Academy under the strong influence of the famous Graphic School of Max Švabinský with its social thematic, who was his leader teacher in the area of etching. He opted unambiguously for social realism to endeavour from the start to express reality through images he produced. He has an interest in moving objects to try to express an abstract feeling and sense of moving through a concrete image of a moving object as a horse or another vehicle. Thema//Subject: # The etching is not only an illustration of Verse Roman showing its main personages but an independent work of art painting a kind of a genre etching. The subject is an arrival of a young lady, so-called brain’s wife, to her estate and the meeting of her serves, servants and attendants who were greeting her. In front, it is a touching composition of three figures and a dog. In the background is a landscape with clouds. It is going to rain. The author expressed fine faces of servants and their feeling uni distinctive individual characteristic of them. Epoche//Age: #1923Medium: #etchingLocation:#Czechoslowakia #Originality: # OriginalSignature: pencil signedSize (in cm): The overall size is ca. 29 x 30 cm. The image size is ca. 11,5 x 19,5 cm.Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 11,41 x 11,81 inch. The image size is ca. 4,5 x 7,6 inch Condition:Grading: Good Corners: Good Writing to back: NoWriting to front: pencil signed by the authorStains on front: No Stains on back: No Creases or bends: NoTears: NoPinholes: No Artist#Engraver: #The provincial Bohemian-born professional artist of the highest calibre ADOLF JELÍNEK ALEX (1890-1957) was best known in his state engraver, painter and writer. He graduated from the Prague School of Arts, Architecture and Design before attending the Munich Academy of Fine Art as a pupil of prof. Janka. Regardless of this fact he developed into the maturer engraver in Prag only in Prague Fine Art Academy under the strong influence of the famous Graphic School of Max Švabinský with its social spirit. He was a closer follower of Švabinský but only in the manner of being free in his choice of subject, which was the moving horses in landscape background. He opted unambiguously for social realism to strive from the start to express reality as he objectively saw or imagined it. He preferred to work with moving objects like horses. At the beginning of his artistic life, he succeeds best in portraits and figurative art. His beloved subjects were to depict different kinds of movement of animals. That is why he would like the subjects of horses standing on their hind legs, riders, moving chariots, gipsies and the like, which he could depict with great liveliness and persuasiveness. After his voyage to Italy, he liked to depict some new motives as visionary compositions of ruined churches and domes. In addition, he also depicts various constructions of the buildings and bridges. There are a lot of his very famous illustrations of books for the various bibliographic editions. There were his numerous etchings for Pushkin’s poetic novel Eugene Onegin in 1923. He has also written and decorated several independent novels. In 1924 he had also participated in the exhibition of Czech graphic artists in Paris and his etching «to the market» was published in the French magazine «L’art et décoration». There are a lot of his best works of art in prominent wold museums as the Albertinum Museum in Vienna, in the Städel Museum at Frankfurt/Mein, in the National Gallery in Prague.

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