The INVESTinART Collection · painting · 36,5 × 30,5 cm
Icy Mountain Stream
Original title: “Ľadový horský potok”
1889 Praha-Uhříněves–1971 Kežmarok
About the work
A frozen mountain stream by the “painter of the beauty of the High Tatras” — a winter motif from the landscape Votruba painted for decades.
Catalogue details
- Artist
- Jaroslav Votruba
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Signature
- signed lower right “Jaroslav Votruba,Ľadový”
- Dimensions (unframed)
- 36,5 × 30,5 cm
- Dimensions (framed)
- not stated in the catalogue — to be measured
- Provenance
- Auction house, Slovak Republic
About the artist
Jaroslav Votruba
1889 Praha-Uhříněves–1971 Kežmarok
„The painter of the High Tatras“ — a Czech who tied his life, and his final resting place, to the mountains: born in Prague-Uhříněves, he passed through the School of Applied Arts under Jakub Schikaneder, taught drawing in Moravia and from 1919 in Slovakia — and anchored for good beneath the Tatra peaks. He not only painted the Tatras but wrote about them, publishing The Tatras Through a Painter's Eyes (1944) and Spring in the High Tatras (1947). He died in Kežmarok and is buried in Tatranská Javorina; the Icy Mountain Stream in our collection is the essence of his lifelong love.
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“Icy Mountain Stream” — Jaroslav Votruba