Old cottages-Vladimír Pleiner *28.7.1891

Very old painting on canvas. Old cottages. Sign written directly into the painting. The author is Vladimír Pleiner, he was born on 28.7.1891 in Brandt u Rakovník and died on 9.10.1952 in Prague. He was an architect, painter and illustrator. He died in 1915 Rakovník Realka and went to a horticultural school in Liechtenstein's Lednice. In the summer of 1914, he was mobilized to the Russian front, where he escaped Russian captivity in 1915. He traveled all over Russia to the Pacific coast and returned to his free homeland by the famous journey by ship around the entire continent. He stayed in MS. army and in 1929 he retired with the rank of staff captain. From 1929 to 1930 he was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague on a special course with prof. Nejdelý. He was on study trips in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Austria and Hungary. You can find more information in the Czech language dictionary. Fine artists II compiled by Dr. By Prokop Toman in Prague 1950. The size of the picture with the frame is 118 x 80 cm. The painting on canvas is mounted in a massive heavy frame. prices 9,000.or by agreement