Rudolf Bém / Vratislav Hlava (1874-1955)

HIGHLANDS

1944
Oil on cardboard, 50x70 cm, signed and dated lower right "Vr. Hlava 1944", decorative frame. With his own birth name Rudolf Bém, after the First World War he adopted the name Vratislav Hlava as a result of patriotic movements, thus referring to a feudal ancestor on his mother's side.