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Vaclav Vytlacil

Vaclav Vytlacil (1892 - 1984) was active/lived in New York, California.  Vaclav Vytlacil is known for Abstract expressionist still life, landscape and harbor painting.

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Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)

He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City.  Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20.  From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn.

He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921.  This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézannes paintings and works of the Old Masters.  He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective.  Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921.  Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abst   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6201 characters.]  Artist bio

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