Description: OBERTHOR Karel/a backwater in a forest with an old cutter&boat/ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHY 1955 Specification Continent//Location: #Europa # Czechoslovakia Motiv: #boat #cutter #landscape with a backwater Subject: The picturesque landscape contains a backwater with forest on the banks around the lake with an old cutter and wooden boat. Artist’s Main Feature: # The Bohemian-born artist KAREL OBERTHOR (1921-1996) is best known in Czech today for his lithographs views of landscapes, flowers and horses. He opted unambiguously for realism. The main feature of Oberthor’s realistic art is his amazing rich and refined colour range. He belongs to the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists, whose members were and are professional artists of the highest calibre. Age: #1955 Medium: #original colour lithography Signature: pencil signed Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 44 x 53 cm. The image size is ca. 30 x 39 cm.Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 17 x 21 in. The image size is ca. 12 x 15 in. Condition: Grading: Good // Gut Corners: PerfectWriting to back: NoWriting to front: Yes/ pencil signed by the authorStains on front: NoStains on back: No Creases or bends: NoTears: NoPinholes: No Artist@Engraver: Born in Prague KAREL OBERTHOR (1921-1996) were a professional Czech artist, painter and engraver. His first education in arts must have been between 1940-1942 at the Ukraine Academy of Arts in Prague and after the war between 1945-1950, he seriously studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His teachers were prominent Czech artists Vladimir Pukl and Vladimir Silovsky. Between 1950-1968 he was a member of the Alliance of Czech artists Hollar and his exhibitions at home and abroad was with this organisation. Oberthor’s drawing and his engraving regarding a drawing and his painting appear to develop from a naturalistic perspective of the world to simplicity of the modern symbolism. He strove from the start to express reality as he objectively saw it. There could be old Sud Czech villages with their changing from the spring to the winter rural landscape and a classical still life with some multicoloured flowers and a bowl with vegetables. Between the subjects of his works could appear a lucky peasant and a country heavy drought-horse and a race-horse. It appears to be a race-horse as a symbol taking in the work of academic painter and graver Charles Oberthor a very unambiguously place. This horse symbol seems to be changed in the course of time and a country heavy drought-horse was replaced by a race-horse taking place in the steeplechase (impressionist colours and suggestive mood of public and strong sense of atmosphere) to be substituted at the end with a dream-horse, which arose in painter’s fantasy. His dream-horse has become firmly embedded in the playful world of poesy where peace, a rest and a fabulous balance reign. Also, a lost paradise comes into being, which lives in the sensitive unconsciousness of everyman and everybody would like to find for self. In a garden without boundaries, a stately stallion runs near a white mare with making mischief foals an embedded in dream girl saw her dream and a faun plays for her his unheard melody. Plants were represented with a symbolic trunk and a paradise flower. A fabulous bird with gold feathers ascends to the high on completing so a harmonic whole of the dream paradise. Oberthor’s drawing follows along two lines. The first of ones is a reality to which belong working sketching from his voyages and drawings for study. The second is a technical one. A technical drawing is very constructive because the author strove to find new ways to simplify a complicated reality for attending symbolic shortness. With maturity, he develops elegance of form individuality of style and sensitive and precise observation.
Price: 126 USD
Location: Prague
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Region of Origin: Bohemia
Handmade: Yes
Artist: Karel Oberthor
Production Technique: lithography
Framing: Unframed
Country/Region of Manufacture: Czech Republic
Style: Realism
Item Height: 21 in
Item Width: 17 in
Material: Paper
Theme: seascape, backwater
Time Period Produced: 1950-1959
Type: Print
Features: Signed
Image Orientation: Landscape
Subject: Landscape
Culture: Europe
Item Length: 21 in
Signed: Yes
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Year of Production: 1955
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Width (Inches): 17
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Height (Inches): 21
Print Surface: Paper
Date of Creation: 1955
Color: Multi-Color
