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BENEŠ KNÜPFER (1844-1910): PLAYING WITH DOLPHINS
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BENEŠ KNÜPFER (1844-1910): PLAYING WITH DOLPHINS
1890s, Italy
Beneš Knüpfer first launched his art career at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, moving on to the Academy in Munich to study historical painting under Karl von Piloty in 1870. Nine years later he went on a study trip to Rome and remained there, never returning to his native country. It is remarkable that unlike the flood of young foreign artists who came to study in Italy, it was not Classicist or Renaissance art that most visibly influenced Knüpfer's art. What is reflected most in Knüpfer's paintings is the sea, highly romanticized with figures of Naiads, Sirens, dolphins, Tritons and other mythological beings. These themes and his large landscape formats became typical features of the artist's work. The popularity of his work can be seen in the fact that Emperor Franz Joseph I purchased his painting of dueling Tritons in 1892.
Paradoxically, the artist's work was not fully appreciated in his native Bohemia during his lifetime, where many viewed his work as misconstrued exoticism. The sea remained closely associated with Knüpfer's life – and death. In November 1910 the artist decided to end his life by jumping off a steamship into the open sea. The work on auction here is a typical example of Knüpfer's work. A nearly identical motif (only in mirror image) was published in a posthumous monograph by Karel B. Mádl titled Beneš Knüpfer, jeho pětapadesát obrazů (Beneš Knüpfer: His fifty-five paintings), fig. 46. Oil on canvas, signed “B. Knüpfer” on bottom right. (76 x 134 cm
Starting price: 240 000 CZK / 8 889 EUR
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BENEŠ KNÜPFER (1844-1910): PLAYING WITH DOLPHINS
1890s, Italy
Beneš Knüpfer first launched his art career at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, moving on to the Academy in Munich to study historical painting under Karl von Piloty in 1870. Nine years later he went on a study trip to Rome and remained there, never returning to his native country. It is remarkable that unlike the flood of young foreign artists who came to study in Italy, it was not Classicist or Renaissance art that most visibly influenced Knüpfer's art. What is reflected most in Knüpfer's paintings is the sea, highly romanticized with figures of Naiads, Sirens, dolphins, Tritons and other mythological beings. These themes and his large landscape formats became typical features of the artist's work. The popularity of his work can be seen in the fact that Emperor Franz Joseph I purchased his painting of dueling Tritons in 1892.
Paradoxically, the artist's work was not fully appreciated in his native Bohemia during his lifetime, where many viewed his work as misconstrued exoticism. The sea remained closely associated with Knüpfer's life – and death. In November 1910 the artist decided to end his life by jumping off a steamship into the open sea. The work on auction here is a typical example of Knüpfer's work. A nearly identical motif (only in mirror image) was published in a posthumous monograph by Karel B. Mádl titled Beneš Knüpfer, jeho pětapadesát obrazů (Beneš Knüpfer: His fifty-five paintings), fig. 46. Oil on canvas, signed “B. Knüpfer” on bottom right. (76 x 134 cm
Starting price: 240 000 CZK / 8 889 EUR
EVENING AUCTION 2016
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Lots: 89
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Gallery & Auction House, Ltd.
Goetheho 17/2
Prague 6
160 00
Czech Republic
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WHERE
ARTHOUSE HEJTMÁNEK
Gallery and Auction house Ltd.
Goetheho 17/ 2
160 00 Prague 6
Czech Republic
WHEN
Preauction Exhibition: 18. – 30. 11. 2016 / 10.00 – 18.00
Auction: 1. 12. 2016: entry from 5 pm, start at 6 pm
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WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO
For our auction, we have carefully selected a varieaty of exceptional artistic works, antiquities and design.
You can look forward to the early work "BETWEEN SUNFLOWERS" by Otakar Kubín, interesting collectors acquisitions from Václav Brožík, Jan Preisler or Antonín Slavíček, Vlaho Bukovac, Josef Šíma, Václav Radimský, Franz Metzner or Jan Bauch. We will also auction works by present artists such as Karel Malich and Jan Saudek.
From the field of furniture we will represent Italian baroque, Czech cubism in the form of several items by Gočár, and also art deco with a glass case made by architect Mašek.
There will be certainly available many other surprising items that will touch and excite any collector.
