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Egyptian Motifs in Croatian Modern Painting: Vlaho Bukovac, Bela Csikos Sesia, Robert Auer

Croatian painters have created works of art inspired by Egyptian motifs in the last decade of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. Inspired with the Oriental spirit of the period which lasted throughout the whole 19th century in European Academic Painting, Croatian artists have also tried to bring the national audience closer to it through attractive settings from the Egyptian past. Vlaho Bukovac, under the influence of „Egyptomania“ in French Painting, creates a masterpiece in 1886, called „Potiphar's wife“, using the sensual potential of the wife of a commander in the service of the Egyptian Pharaoh. Bela Csikos Sesia has already made works of art inspired with Egypt at his studies in Vienna, in which, with the precision of an archaeologist, he revives historical scenes of the construction of the pyramids. Later, under the influence of symbolism, Csikos will use a mystical aura of the atmosphere of Ancient Egypt in the painting called „The dead guard“. Robert Auer has placed Cleopatra, who he depicts in the moments before she dies, in his triumvirate of femmes fatales, including „Circe“and „Leda“. Fatal destiny and beauty have determined the choice of this motif, by a painter known for depicting sensual female nudes. Decorative motifs of Egyptian Art have often served as templates for Art Nouveau repertoire of the painters of the Modern era, and are also found in Croatian Painting of Art Nouveau. Dimensionality and pastel colors are a design approach of many compositions of the artworks of Croatian Modern painting. With a small, yet imposing oeuvre, Croatian Art is participating in the general wave of adoration of Egypt in the European Art of the 19th century.

Egypt, Painting, oriental motifs, Bukovac, Csikos, Auer, Potiphar's Wife

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