Czech Painter Ludvík Kuba 1863 – 1956 Prague "still Life With Fruits And Flowers"

Czech painter Ludvík Kuba 1863 Poděbrady – 1956 Prague "Still Life with Fruits and Flowers"
Oil on canvas glued to cardboard
Size: 48 x 32 cm
Signed lower left L. Kuba 1944
Framed
Ludvík Kuba was a Czech folklorist, writer and painter. From 1888 he completed his training as a painter with Karel Liebscher and, on his recommendation, entered the Prague Academy of Painting with Max Pirner in 1891. In 1893 he went to Paris, where he studied painting at the private Julian Academy. In 1895 he married and shortly after the wedding the couple left for a year's stay in Mostar, where Kuba wanted to paint the cycle Slavism in painting. However, this did not happen because he felt that he had not yet mastered the technique of oil painting sufficiently for this task. He therefore decided to continue his painting studies, this time in Munich, at the school of the Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe. From 1904, Kuba lived in Vienna and in 1910, before returning to his homeland, he undertook a three-month trip to Italy, where he visited important art centres, Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. He settled permanently in Prague from 1911. Due to some disagreements with the Mánes art association, he devoted himself mainly to ethnography, for which he received numerous distinctions and awards at home and abroad over the years. He continued to undertake study trips and work on other works from his collection Slavism in Songs.