69. The Shepherd Admires the View [1898.–1904.]

Menci Clement Crnčić was a painter, educator, and one of the founders of modern Croatian graphics. He studied painting in Vienna and Munich, and perfected his skills in graphics in Vienna with William Unger. He was a co-founder and the first professor of the Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is recognized for his landscapes, especially marine motifs, in which he combines a realistic sensitivity to atmosphere with a lyrical mood. His body of work occupies an important place in the development of modern Croatian landscape painting and graphics. He was extremely active in the early years of the 20th century, organizing and participating in numerous exhibitions, opening a famous private painting school with B. Čikoš Sesija and producing a large number of works with motifs of Dalmatia and the Croatian Coast. Crnčić's scenes are based on realistic observation of nature, but are characterized by a warm palette and a strong sense of light and atmosphere. He created his most famous works with coastal and Adriatic themes during this period, which exhibit lyrical tones and a refined coloristic sensitivity, placing him among the most prominent representatives of modern Croatian landscape painting. The motif from the offered oil is also found in the graphics of that time, and a study for the work from 1899, titled "Coast", is reproduced in the catalog.

Dimensions

width 121 cm, height 60 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed at the bottom left, in brown, "Menci Cl. Crnčić"

Dating

1898.–1904.

PROVENANCE

Historical collection of Đuro Pastizzi.

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