I think the macabre subject matter would help make this an easier sell myself. That is what makes it special. Strange, weird, macabre and unusual always sells well. I thought I taught you people better than that! lol
Some more on the artist (translated)-
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Kutlík
Cyril Kutlík (* 29. March 1869 Křížlice - † 4. April 1900 in Belgrade ) was a Slovak painter and illustrator , art teacher and founder of the first school of painting in Belgrade. A representative of historicism , realism and portraiture. He also worked on illustrations national calendar and is one of the first authors of artistic postcards in Slovakia.
Biography [ edit | edit source ]
Kutlík Cyril was born in 1869 in Krizlice . Attended grammar school in Hradec Králové . In 1885 he goes to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , where he led the professors Antonín Lhota, František Sequens and Maximilian Pirner. Prague He graduated in 1891 painting Hus last moments of freedom that has been exposed to the General Provincial Exhibition. Year 1891 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and worked mainly on painting portraits and other contracts. In the period 1893 - 1895 he is healed in South Tyrol tuberculosis. During his studies in Prague, in 1887 , he traveled to Belgrade for the celebrations dedicated to Vuk Karadzic and saw that Belgrade has no school of painting. The idea to establish a school of painting in it matured for longer, and in July 1895 he went to Belgrade. Serbian draftsmanship and painting school opened Kutlík 5. 9. 1895 street Kosančićev venac (in the building, which later housed the National Library of Serbia and which was destroyed in 1941 during the bombing of Belgrade). Kutlíkova school every year existence progressed. It consisted of the Department for those interested in professional painting, of course craftsmen and the rate for women. (At that time, ie. More or Painter's Academy in Munich is not separated for women.)
Kutlíková the students were later known Serbian artists as Nadezda Petrovic , Borivoje Stevanovic , Dragomir Glišić , Ljubomir Ivanović and representatives of the so-called. Serbian impressionism Kosta Miličević and Milan Milovanovic . In 1900 it was Kutlíková work presented at the World Exhibition in Paris. This triumph did not live already and is buried in Belgrade. After death, he took Kutlíkova school Serbian painter Rista Vukanović , after a pause during the first World War in 1919 the school was restored, as a state and its foundations were built and the Serbian Academy of Arts from 1937 .
Kutlíková work consists of historical paintings, portraits, religious and allegorical compositions of genre themes and to a lesser extent, landscapes and still lifes. He devoted himself also illustrations, especially for the Czech and Slovak national church periodicals and calendars. He created header magazines in the Czech Republic and Serbia. Postcards with his proposal to send in Prague, Belgrade and Ruzomberok.
