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Hynais, Vojtech
(b Vienna, 14 Dec 1854; d Prague, 22 Aug 1925). Bohemian painter of Austrian birth. He studied at the Vienna Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 1870, working under Anselm Feuerbach, with whom he kept in contact after leaving for Italy on a scholarship. During two visits to Italy (1874–5 and 1877) he worked on mythological and religious paintings (e.g. Perseus and Andromeda, c. 1875; priv. col.). He was particularly interested in the Old Masters, especially those of the Baroque period, and most of all in Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1878 he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris; during this period he also worked with Paul Baudry. Hynais’s later pictures continue to show the influence of their neo-Baroque style of French decorative painting in the academic tradition. Luminism—the dramatization of colours by light—remained much more acceptable to him than the Impressionist treatment of light.
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