| Lucie
Buhmeister - Kucera 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.
Biography: Baltic German by origin, she came to Croatia
in 1923 through marriage to Vlaho Kucera, son to the famous
Croatian astronomer Oton Kucera. 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 Kucera 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 Babic, 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 Zuzoric"
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 Pcre 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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