Božena Jelínková-Jirásková, 1880-1951
Bastia in Corsica, 1929
Oil on canvas
The painter Božena Jelínková-Jirásková was born in Litomyšl into the family of the writer Alois Jirásek. She graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where she studied with Jakub Schikaneder, and then took private lessons with painter Antonín Slavíček. She often stayed in France with her diplomat husband Hanuš Jelínek. The many trips they took there led her to paint landscapes, from which one can see the clear influence of the neo-classical landscape school of the French painter of Czech origin Otakar Kubín (Othon Coubine). It manifests itself primarily through a clearly defined space, order and accumulation of plans and atmospheric luminosity.
