Boats In Port By Emil-bénédiktoff Hirschfeld - Brittany

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Dimensions unframed 54 x 65 cm, framed 72 x 82 cm.

Emil-Bénédiktoff Hirschfeld (1867-1922). It is in the opalescent light enveloping the port reality of penumbra and mystery that the Slavic soul of Hirschfeld expressed itself with the most truth. Like Charles Cottet and the painters of the black band, he found his marks in the intimate poetry of chiaroscuro, adding a distinctive and distinguished note to Concarnoise painting. Born in Odessa in 1867, the Russian painter lived thirty years in Concarneau. In the great movement of foreign artists at the end of the 19th century who came to meet French realist painting, deeply marked by Courbet. Munich then Paris will be the stops of the young artist. He arrived in Concarneau in 1891. There he found room and board, painter friends and the thematic material he was looking for in the poor and picturesque maritime environment. With his sometimes warm and nuanced palette, sometimes monochromatic dominated by green, he brushes many tuna boats. Hirschfeld has found his way. It multiplies the moonrises or sunsets over the bay. Premature death at the age of 54, the Slav had translated in his own way, the mysticism of the Breton soul.