Lot 80

Josef Ullmann (1870 - 1922) PATH NEAR THE FIELD

An impressive painting with a high horizon and a quiet landscape in the high summer, when ears of corn ripen and poppies grow between them, comes from Ullman's work after graduating from the landscape school with prof. J. Mařák at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1900, his paintings have appeared regularly on the pages of Zlatá Praha magazine and other periodicals, and he has exhibited extensively in Prague and throughout Bohemia. Ullmann was artistically shaped by the Chittussian landscape and also by the tendencies of landscape Art Nouveau, which he had the opportunity to get to know in Munich - in 1895 he saw an exhibition of Worpsweds with their moody melancholy canvases in Glaspalast, thus combining romantic-realistic views with Art Nouveau decorativism. Gradually, with the release of the brush presentation, the visual component strengthens and Ullmann moves to the technique of larger or smaller stains, spreads the paint dry to the base and piles in pastes, combines oil and tempera and achieves real technical mastery.