Otakar Hůrka( 1899 -1966 Prague) Czech Painter

Otakar Hůrka 1899 -1966 Prague Czech painter "Pohled ba Sázavu" ("View of Sázava")
Oil painting on cardboard
Signed and dated 1922
Dimensions: 67 x 56 cm
Original frame
Very good condition
He was the pupil of the famous Czech landscape painter of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries Alois Kalvoda, and he remained faithful to this genre, the Czech landscape, all his life. In the years 1920-1923, Hůrka was on a study trip to France (grant from President TG Masaryk). In 1921, he exhibited the Czech landscape at the Salon du Printemps in Paris with great success in the Echo de Paris, Petit Parisien, Journal. Revenues from art Les Tablettes and La Revue Modeme provided a number of reproductions of his works. Among other things, he exhibited, among other things, two large canvases of the First World War battlefield in Terron, France, at the Fall Salon of the same year, where the Czechoslovak legions also took part in the battles of 1918. He was appointed member of the Autumn Fair as the sixth Czech