Vaclav Anderle in Croatia

Vaclav Leo Anderle (1859 – 1944) is one of the many Czech and Slovak forestry experts who, about one century ago, spent a part of their working lives in Croatia. By excelling not only in their profession but also in some forestry-related careers, these great men made their new homeland famous worldwide. Being a passionate lover of painting, Vaclav Leo Anderle attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in addition to the study of forestry at the Higher School of Soil Culture. He worked in specialized forestry fields in the country and abroad, mainly on the estate of the large forest owner Thurn-Taxis. He spend more than one decade in Croatia, first in the forest office of Crni Lug in Gorski Kotar, and then in the forest office of Lekenik. As an established landscape and figure artist, he illustrated several popular journals and papers of the time, as well as many works of Croatian men of letters and travel writers. This refers particularly to the trilogy written by Dragutin Hirc, a natural scientist and travel writer, which was dedicated to Gorski Kotar, Lika and the Croatian Littoral. In the later period of his creative painting he specialized in animal art and wildlife and particularly in hunting motifs. In doing so, he laid the foundations of the Czech hunting illustration. He was also a very prolific hunting writer.

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