A Large Retrospective of Vlaho Bukovac

After The Hague, where it delighted over fifty-thousand Dutch visitors, a retrospective exhibition of the great Croatian painter, Vlaho Bukovac, will be on show at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery as of early February. However, the exhibition will remain open for only three weeks, so make sure not to miss this opportunity to view an extremely valuable collection of art!

In early February, the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery will open its doors to a retrospective exhibition of extremely valuable paintings by Vlaho Bukovac. The Zagreb exhibition will remain on show for only three weeks. Thereafter, it will move to Cavtat, the artist’s hometown, before numerous works borrowed specifically for this exhibition are finally returned to their owners.

 
The exhibition is called “Vlaho Bukovac – a Cosmopolitan Croat”. It features some one hundred very valuable works, which were previously exhibited at The Hague’s Gemeentemuseum, where it impressed more than fifty-thousand Dutch visitors over a three-month period.

Vlaho Bukovac was born in 1855. He studied in Paris and worked there for fifteen years. Upon returning to Zagreb, in 1893, he became one of the most significant personas in the city’s artistic and cultural circles.

Thanks to him, Zagreb got its first atelier, the Art Pavilion was built, and the Association of Croatian Artists was founded; all of which marked a new period in Croatian painting. During those years in Zagreb, he created some of his best known works such as the large, decorative compositions “Dubravka” and “Gundulić’s Dream”. Between 1903 and his death in 1922, Vlaho Bukovac lived in Prague, where he was a professor at the Art Academy.
 

In that last, Prague stage, he painted and experimented with a newly-adopted pointillist technique and, as a result, he is nowadays considered a pioneer and main representative of Croatian modernism.