Marcel KRASICKY (1898-1968), Smoking a Cigarette;

oil, cardboard; 42 x 32.5 cm
signed p. d. M Krasicky
Provenance: private collection Lodz

Czech painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. He was the son of the painter Marcelín Krasický and
Anna, née Zbudilová. He was initially taught by his father. He studied in Brno at the school of
K. Truppe's painting school, then with Prof. František Hlavić and at the School of Crafts
Artistic Crafts under Prof. František V. Süsser. In the 1920s, he made studies and
artistic travels in Germany, Italy and the Balkans. He taught classes in
painting at the Association of Amateur Artists in Brno. His work includes
primarily figurative and landscape motifs, especially from the Haná region. W
his works, he tried to capture the disappearing Haná folklore and the features of ordinary people.
After World War II, he also created paintings with partisan themes. His works
can be found, among others, in the Museum of Art in Olomouc , the National Gallery in
Prague or the Moravian Gallery in Brno.