41. Winter Landscape [1930. - 1935.]

One of the most famous painters in Croatian history, Oton Iveković (Klanjec, 1869 – Zagreb, 1939), is considered the founder of Croatian modern art and institutional visual life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He perfected his painting in Zagreb, Munich, and Vienna, where he earned the nickname "Zrinski painter" due to his frequent depictions of scenes from the Zrinski family's history. His early compositions with Croatian history themes show academicism, historicism, and romanticism. He also pursued the same themes with commissioned works. He created portraits, religious themed paintings, illustrated books and was a costume designer at the Zagreb National Theatre. His oeuvre also includes landscapes and genre scenes, often with winter motifs. One such depiction is an oil on hardboard from 1930 titled "Winter Landscape". A snowy landscape, rolling hills dotted with forests, and a path disappearing into the distance are part of the subtle composition. In the foreground, a few evergreen trees bear the weight of the snow. Above the landscape hangs a winter sky, with clouds in gray and blue tones. In the right part, there appears a man-made house, as well as a man. Dominant are cold tones of gray, blue, and white, with warm contrasts of brown and ochre trees. Although best known for his large historical canvases, this landscape also shows that Iveković was capable of lyrically conveying the beauty and atmosphere of the Croatian landscape onto canvas.

Dimensions

width 50 cm, height 41 cm

Description

oil on hardboard, signed bottom right, in black, "O. IVEKOVIĆ"

Dating

1930. - 1935.

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