Vladimir Varlaj (Croatian Vladimir Varlaj , born August 25, 1895. Zagreb - died August 15, 1962. Zagreb ) - Croatian artist and graphic artist - expressionist .
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Life and work
He received school education in Zagreb and in Karlovac, where his family moved. In 1911, V. Varlay entered a private art school in Zagreb, in 1913-1914 he attended the Zagreb College of Painting and Graphics, while working in a photographic studio. During the First World War, in 1915, the artist was drafted into the Austrian army and sent to the Eastern Front, to Russia. In 1917 he was demobilized after a serious wound. In 1918, V. Varlay came to Prague and enrolled here for a course at the Academy of Arts (however, he later refused it). Returning to Zagreb at the end of the war, Varlai and his fellow artists who lived in Prague - Uzelac, Hekan and Trepse - form the Prague Four group. Together they exhibit their canvases at the 1919 Spring Salon in Zagreb and receive positive marks in art criticism. In 1920, V. Varlay exhibited at the international exhibition in Genoa. In 1921 he became one of the founders of the "Group of Independent Artists" ( Grupa nezavisnih umjetnika ). In 1934, already a famous master, V. Varlay entered the Zagreb Academy of Arts, in the class of Marino Tartaglia . At the end of his life, the artist was sick a lot, spent the last 10 years in a wheelchair.
The work of V. Varlaia had a great influence on the development of Croatian and Yugoslav painting in general, especially landscape painting. The 1920s were the most productive and vibrant for him; after 1933, the artist drew very little. He left magnificent images of both mountain Croatia and its sea landscapes - views of Dalmatia, mountain Kotar, Kvarner, the Adriatic islands. Portraits and still lifes created by V. Varlaem are also known. In 1992-1993, a retrospective exhibition of the works of V. Varlay was held in the Zagreb Art Pavilion.
In 2000, one of the paintings of the artist was depicted on a postage stamp of Croatia.
Notes
- ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
Literature
- Enciklopedija hrvatskih umjetnika (gl. Ur. Žarko Domljan), Zagreb 1996.
- Frano Dulibić, Slikarstvo Vladimira Varlaja , Zagreb 2011. ISBN 978-953-6106-80-6