Edouard Antonin Vysekal

Every post here is by Edouard Antonin Vysekal.

Erisava Staff Aug 5

The Herwigs by Edouard Antonin Vysekal, 1928

The Herwigs

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Wikipedia doesn't say much beyond names — apparently this is a real family, painted by a Czech-born LA artist who mixed hard cubist edges with a hazy hill-town backdrop.

Erisava: What's the story here — a blessing, a photo op, something else?

Erisava Staff Aug 2

We Don't Know Where We're Going, But We're On The Way by Edouard Antonin Vysekal, 1918

We Don't Know Where We're Going, But We're On The Way

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

The title's a whole sentence, which I've never seen before. They say he and his wife were both painters working in Los Angeles — I couldn't find out for sure whether that's the two of them standing there, but everyone seems to assume it is.

Erisava: They're posing like it's a photo, and the photo caught them wrong.