Under the winter sun of the south. Czech painters in Corsica and the French Riviera 1925-1931

Under the winter sun of the south

Under the winter sun of the south. Czech painters in Corsica and the French Riviera 1925-1931

30. 6. — 8. 10. 2023

Masaryk square 24
curator Marcel Fišer

The exhibition deals with two phenomena that were intertwined between 1925 and 1931 and with which its two central figures – Otakar Nejedlý (1883–1957) and Josef Hubáček (1899–1931) are also connected.

Those phenomena are, on the one hand, the first six foreign plein airs of Nejedlý's Landscape Studio on the French Riviera and Corsica (1925 Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1926 Cap d'Antibes, 1928 and 1929 Ajaccio, 1930 Pont de Suve near Toulon, 1931 Cap Ferrat near Nice) and on the one hand, Hubáček's "discovery" of Corsica, where he spent four winters (1926/27 – 1929/30) in its capital, Ajaccio. Both Nejedlý with his school and individually came here to see him, as well as his two closest friends Bedřich Piskač (1898–1929), who died shortly after on his way to Corsica, and Jan Slavíček (1900–1970).

Alois Fišárek, Bořivoj Žufan, Bohumír Dvorský, Vladimír Hroch, František Michl, Josef Vacke, Lucie Klímová, Josef Václav Síla and Josef Olexa are represented at the exhibition.

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb and the Archives of the National Gallery in Prague. The Arbor vitae publishing house, together with both galleries and with the support of the Kodl Gallery, publishes a publication of the same name.

*reproduction used: Josef Hubáček, Aqueduct, oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm, GASK, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora

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