Karel Štika : Dessin original : maladie officiel de Carré/encre & gravure du même paysage & 1944

Karel Štika: Original Drawing: distemper/ink&Etching of the same winter landscape&1944

Spezifizierung

Continent: #Europa #Czechoslowakia #Czech Republic

Motiv: #landscape, countryside #winter landscape# Vita rustica#Snow

Artist#Engraver: # Karel Štika (1898–1975)

Subject: #It is a drawing with distemper and Indian ink to prepare an etching dated of the same time. The Etching is a copy of the drawing. These two works of art show a work of the artist as the natural transference from the abstract to the concrete.

Age: 1944

Medium: # Drawing and etching

Location: #Czech Republic #Czechoslowakia

Original: # Original drawing and etching

Signature: with a pencil # mit dem Bleistift

Size of Drawing (in cm):

The overall size&image size is ca. 30 x 41 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size& image size is ca. 12 x 16,3 inch.

Size of the etching (in cm):

The overall size is ca. 27 x 36 cm.

The image size is ca. 21 x 30 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 10,5 x 14 inch.

The image size is ca. 8 x 11,5 inch

Condition of Drawing:

Grading: Perfect

Corners: Perfect

Writing to back: No

Writing to front: signature with a pencil

Stains on front: No

Stains on back: No

Creases or bends: No

Tears: No

Pin holes: No

Condition of Etching:

Grading: Perfect

Corners: Perfect

Writing to back: No

Writing to front: signature with a pencil

Stains on front: No

Stains on back: No

Creases or bends: No

Tears: No

Pin holes: No

Artist#Engraver: Born in Prague Karel Štika (1898–1975) is a professional Czech painter, engraver and a writer in newspapers about problem concerning aesthetic and philately particularly about design of postage stamps. Well-educated (1919–1923) at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague he belongs to the best pupils of Max Švabinsky in the special school of engravers and absolved a study trip in Italy in 1926. From 1921 to 1952 he taught at Czech and Slovak secondary schools, of which he worked in Nová Paka for fourteen years. Štika was a member of the Association of South Bohemian Artists, Umělecká beseda and the Association of Czech Artists Hollar, which he chaired from 1953 to 1954. He exhibited independently mainly in Prague. In 1967 he was named a Merited Artist. Štika most often worked with the technique of wood engraving, drypoint and wash drawings. He created several graphic cycles, especially the cycle «Alms» (1926), «Road» (1935) and «Through stone landscape» (1949). In 1945, the committee published his illustrations «Poet and Resistance». In addition to the works of many Czech writers and poets, Štika also illustrated the works of foreign authors. Štiks engravings and drawings are in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague, in Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou, in the Municipal Museum in Nová Paka and elsewhere.