KARNEC Jean Etienne

Born in 1865. Died 1934.

Austrian Active in France.
Painter of landscapes, seascapes, harborscapes, waterscapes. Orientalist tendency.

He worked mainly in Rouen, but also in Paris and Venice. Some of his Orientalist landscapes are treated in a thick paste that tends to melt the forms.
He is known as the Delacroix of landscapes.

His paintings are mostly small formats on cardboard, like ours.

bibliogr. Gérald Schurr, in: Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, valeur de demain, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, t. II, Paris, 1982.