ON POSTAGE STAMPS
VOJTĚCH HYNAIS
ISSUE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE STAMP
The Czech painter V. Hynais is one of the major artists and the generation of the National Theatre. He took his studies at the Academy in Vienna and Paris. In 1893 he was appointed a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He achieved numerous artistic and social honours. His works were based on the French historical and decorative painting. He worked as a decorator for the porcelain manufacture in Sevres. Hynais had a great understanding for a sensitive distribution of space which he used mainly to display allegorical and mythological scenes. He was the author of several paintings for the National Theatre Prague. The oil painting The Spring whose detail is the subject of the postage stamp decorates the presidential lodge in the National Theatre. His key work is however the new curtain which replaced Ženíšek's curtain destroyed by fire. Hynais introduced the style of plain-air painting into the Czech painting and sought to find a solution for the problems of light and colours also in figural compositio
