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Lucie Buhmeister - Kučera
16.10.1890.
26.08.1930.
Education:
With Kardowsky (Moscow, 1912.-1915.)
Arts school in Riga (1907-1912) Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
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| Biography: Baltic German by origin, she came to Croatia in 1923 through marriage to Vlaho Kučera, son to the famous Croatian astronomer Oton Kučera. She began studying painting in Riga (Latvia) with Wilhelm Purvit (follower of the famous Lerrithan) and Jean Rosenthal. Her first one man exhibition in Riga in 1912 proved a remarkable success. In the same year she left for St. Petersburg. She spent three years there, alternating her stays there with periods in Moscow, mostly in the studio of the painter Kardowsky, and painted after the painter Serov. She exhibited in Riga again in 1913 and was awarded first prize (2000 golden roubles) for the portrait "My grandmother" (the painting is now in the Croatian Historical Museum). She exhibited in St. Petersburg for the third time at the invitation of the group "Tovarichestvo Peredvizhnikov" where she was extremely well received along with the painters I. Repin and A. Makovsky. From 1916 to 1921 she lived in Dorpat and had four one man exhibitions. In 1922 she left for Munich, then Dresden, where she met and married Vlaho Kučera in 1923. From 1925 she lived with her husband in Šibenik, and in February 1926 had her first one man exhibition in Zagreb. (She had excellent reviews from the distinguished authorities of the time, Ljubo Babić, dr. F. Deak, Iso Kršnjavi, Petar Knoll.) In 1927 together with Nasta Rojc she exhibited in "The Women's International Club" in London. In 1928 and 1929 she participated in the exhibitions of Women's Fine Arts Club and at the exhibition "Cvijeta Zuzorić" in Belgrade. She succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 40 and died in Paris. The urn with her ashes is kept in the famous Paris cemetery of Pčre Lachaise. Her fellow artists from the Women's Fine Arts Club included her works in their exhibition in 1930 as a sign of respect. |
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