1983 Original Father Emilian Glocar Orthodox Man Portrait Oil Painting Signed

Description: Original 1982 oil painting by Father Emilian Glocar (1906-1985) on mat board. Signed and dated lower right. We have a large collection by Glocar that we will be listing separately. SEE LAST FOUR PICTURES. 14" by 11" Please see pictures for details and condition. Below is some information about Father Emilian Glocar, we will also attach two links for more information: "Dispersed across Midwestern private homes and churches, Emilian Glocar’s works are hidden gems of sacred art. Painted with childlike ease, unaffectedness and, at the same time, modernist sensibilities, they occupy a unique place among myriads of religious icons created in the past two millennia of Christian iconography...The early life of Fr. Glocar is a study in the ever-changing and fractured geography of the Balkans and a lesson in Imperial collapse. Emilian Glocar was born in 1906 in the village of Lukavice (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in the Czech Republic) and, after the downfall of the Hapsburg Monarchy, studied at the Serbian Orthodox Seminary in Sarajevo (then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) from 1923 to 1928. He learned theology in Belgrade (then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now in Serbia), was ordained to the priesthood, and served in Dalj (then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Croatia). Shortly before WWII, his church authorities sent him to the United States to be a priest at a Serbian Orthodox parish in Ohio. In 1956, Fr. Emilian was dismissed from his position. One of the reasons, possibly, was his individual approach to icon painting. His icons were too innovative, too expressive and “unorthodox” — they did not conform to the age-old conventions of Eastern Orthodox iconography. A cross between Naïve art and post-impressionism, they were unlike anything a believer would be accustomed to seeing in an Orthodox church. To make a living, Fr. Glocar also painted non-religious works reminiscent of French Impressionism, especially the art of Claude Monet, remarkable for their sense of color and atmosphere. In 1963, Archbishop John (Garklāvs) of the Chicago-Minneapolis Diocese received Fr. Glocar into the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) where he remained, serving in a small parish in Wisconsin, and painting iconostases in local churches. Fr. Emilian died in 1985 at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois. In 1944, Fr. Emilian published a novel, A Man from the Balkans, now out of print and difficult to find, on the mid-20th-century immigrant experience in the US." "Although his work is Impressionistic, the subject is usually easy to recognize. His work is, however, set apart from true realism by his imaginative use of color. His richly applied paint and boldly moulded floral canvases evoke the work of Monticelli, the masterful flower painter who inspired and influenced Van Gogh to produce his radiant flower paintings." "His canvases of cities and cathedrals deal primarily with the peasant village which is usually situated on a hill in the midst of the countryside. It gives one the impression that the people who live there have a great communion with their land and their own village which revolves around the church. The Gothic churches which frequently occupy the whole of a picture are impressionistic and reminiscent of the tradition of Manet, Cezanne and Monet." TMORA: "Man From The Balkans: Divine Art by Fr. Emilian Glocar" : https://tmora.org/2023/01/18/a-man-from-the-balkans-divine-art-by-fr-emilian-glocar/ Serbica Americana: "Fr. Emilian Glocar" : https://eserbia.org/sapeople/church/906-father-emilian-glocar

Price: 599 USD

Location: Akron, Ohio

End Time: 2025-01-08T21:12:00.000Z

Shipping Cost: 19 USD