VACLAV VYTLACIL Group of 12 lithographs of Munich.
Lithographs, 7 with hand coloring in watercolor, each 1924. Each signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Various sizes and conditions. Very good impressions of these scarce, early lithographs.
Ex-collection The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
Vytlacil (1892-1984), an American-born artist, spent his early years studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York before accepting a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art. In 1919, he traveled to Europe to study the work of Paul Cézanne and Old Master painters and landed in Munich in 1923 where he became a student of and subsequently a teaching assistant to Hans Hofmann. After studying with Hofmann for much of the mid-1920s, Vytlacil returned to the Art Students League as a champion of Modernism, and paved the way for Hofmann's tenure there. By the 1930s Vytlacil's work became reliant on abstraction and energy. The current lithographs represent Vytlacil's earlier style, influenced predominantly by Cézanne.
