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List Of Croatian Artists
This is a list of artists (painters, sculptors, architects and printmakers) who were born and/or were primarily active in Croatia. The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name. 13th century *Andrija Buvina *Radovan (master), Radovan (''Majstor Radovan''); sculptor 15th century *Andrija Aleši (1425–1505); sculptor and architect *Nikola Božidarević (c. 1460–1517); painter *Giovanni Dalmata (''Ivan Duknović'')c. 1440 – c. 1514); sculptor *Lovro Dobričević (c. 1420–1478); painter *Francesco Laurana (''Frane Vranjanin'') (c. 1430–1502); sculptor *Giorgio da Sebenico (''Juraj Dalmatinac'') (c. 1410–1473); sculptor 16th century *Giulio Clovio, Julije Klović (1498–1578); painter *Martino Rota (1520–1583), painter and engraver 18th century *Federiko Benković (1667–1753) *Ivan Ranger (1700–1753) 19th century *Vlaho Bukovac (1855–1922); painter *Menci Klement Crnčić (1865–1930); painter *Vjekoslav Karas (1821–1858); painter *C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrija Buvina
Andrea Buvina (also known as ''Andrija Buvina'', or ''Andrea Guvina'', ''Gavina'' or ''Gruvina'') was a 13th-century medieval Croatian sculptor and painter. His work is commonly associated with the Romanesque art, Romanesque period. Works The wooden door for the Cathedral of St. Duje in Split, made by Andrija Buvina c. 1214, is the best-known work of Romanesque sculpture in Croatia. The two wings of the Buvina wooden door, which is 530 cm in height, contain 28 scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, starting with the Annunciation and ending with the Ascension of Jesus, Ascension, separated by the grape vine, acanthus and interlace ornaments, with small human and animal figures among the vine leaves. Buvina was also the author of a painting of Saint Christopher, probably a fresco painting in the peristyle of Diocletian's Palace in Split. References Croatian architects Croatian sculptors Romanesque artists Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Croatian painters 13th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Rendić
Ivan Rendić (27 August 1849 – 29 June 1932) was a Croatian sculptor. Biography He began sculpting early on in life, thanks to the stoneworking tradition of the island of Brač, where he was raised. He finished arts school in Venice in 1871 and afterwards became a part of the Fiorentine sculpting atelier. Later he mostly lived and worked in Trieste where he made the bulk of his works. In Croatia, most of his works were displayed in Zagreb and Split. He was the first famous and educated Croatian sculptor of Modern age. He worked in the Realist style with elements of naturalism, especially in finer details. Rendić made around 200 statues. His most famous works were public monuments raised in honour of famous Croats which remain over all parts of Croatia, for example, his statues of Andrija Medulić, Julije Klović, Krsto I Frankopan, Ivan Gundulić, Nikola Jurišić and August Šenoa at Zrinjevac park in Zagreb, as well as Petar Preradović and Andrija Kačić Mioš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bela Čikoš Sesija
Bela Čikoš Sesija (born Adalbert Csikos Sessia; 27 January 1864 in Osijek – 11 February 1931 in Zagreb) was a Croatian Symbolism (art), Symbolist painter, art teacher and one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Biography Čikoš Sesija's father was a Captain in the border patrol of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Brief biography @ Essekeri. One of the Čikoš' ancestors was a hero at the Battle of the Sesia (1524), Battle of the Sesia in 1524 and, as a result, was knighted with the name "Sesija". Due to his father's reassignments, the family moved frequently and his education was sporadic until he entered the Cadet School at Karlovac in 1874. After graduation, in 1882, Čikoš Sesija was assigned to the 78th Osijek infantry regiment under Baron Josip Šokčević. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavko Brill
Slavko Brill (27 December 1900 – January 1943) was a Croatian-Jewish sculptor and ceramics artist born in Nova Gradiška. He graduated in 1926 at Art Academy in Zagreb. His artistic works included portraits, busts, and cemetery monuments. After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, Brill converted to Catholicism. He was arrested by the Ustaše in July 1941, and then quickly released after an intercession from the Gorica utensils factory, where he was employed. In January 1942 he was arrested with his wife and incarcerated in Jasenovac concentration camp where he was forced to feature along with some other Jewish artists including Daniel Ozmo and Daniel Kabiljo in a propaganda film. Brill worked for a while in the camp's ceramics workshop. He died from tuberculosis in January 1943. His wife and her mother perished in Đakovo internment camp. Brill's works were posthumously featured in group exhibitions in Belgrade (1956–57) and Zagreb (1988, 1996 and 2000), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Billich
Charles Billich (born Karlo Bilić) is an artist living in Sydney, Australia. His painting subjects include Ballet and sport, architecture and town planning, eroticism and classicism, portraiture, and Theatre, stage, as well as Humanitarianism, Humanitarian pieces and works of religious significance. In 2000, he received the Sport Artist of the Year Award presented annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives. Charles Billich conceived a series of images based on the Bing Ma Yong Terracotta warriors. The Terracotta Army, Bing Ma Yong images are represented on a collection of 16 postage stamps currently in circulation in China. Biography Charles Billich's works have hung in the White House, the United Nations Headquarters, and the Vatican City, Vatican. Billich paints and draws in all Media (arts), media and sculpts in precious and semi-precious metals. ''Humanity United'' was created from a brief extended to him by the Australian Red Cross to commemorate the 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lujo Bezeredi
Lujo Bezeredi (also spelled Bezeredy, ; 1898 – April 20, 1979) was a Croatian-Hungary, Hungarian sculpture, sculptor and Painting, painter. His life He was born in Nova, Hungary, Nova, Kingdom of Hungary, to a Hungarian-Slovak father and a Croatian mother. After the death of his parents, he moved to Csáktornya (present-day Čakovec, Croatia), where he completed his schooling at the public school and teacher's training school. In 1917 he was drafted to the army. He took part in the establishment of the Serbian–Hungarian Baranya–Baja Republic. After the collapse, he fled to Yugoslavia, but was briefly detained in Osijek. He later studied at the College of Education in Budapest and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1922. He emigrated to Bulgaria. He lived on casual manual jobs, and was finally hired in a brick factory in Plovdiv where he began to make clay in his spare time. In 1922, he returned to Zagreb and enrolled in the sculpture department of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Becić
Vladimir Becić (1886–1954) was a Croatian painter, best known for his early work in Munich, which had a strong influence on the direction of modern art in Croatia. Becić studied painting in Munich at the prestigious Academy of Arts along with Oskar Herman, Miroslav Kraljević and Josip Račić. This group of Croatian artists are known as the Munich Circle or Munich Four, and are very important figures in Croatian art of the 20th century. After Munich, Becić spent 2 years studying and working in Paris before returning to Zagreb in 1910. During the First World War, Vladimir Becić worked as a war artist on the Salonika front producing a series of images of the soldiers and wounded. Following the end of the war, he spent time in a village near Sarajevo, where he painted landscapes and rural subjects in a style that used colour and tonal variations to depict form and space. Becić was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1924–1947), and a member of the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Bastl
Vjekoslav "Alojz" Bastl (13 August 1872 – 3 September 1947) was a Croatian architect known for his diverse secessionist architectural style. His work circulated mostly within the boundaries of Zagreb, where he resided. Later in life, he was heavily influenced by modernism. Today, he is regarded as one of the highlights of early modern architecture in Croatia. Biography Bastl was born on 13 August 1872 to an ethnic Czech family originating from a Bohemian town Příbram. He eventually moved to Zagreb where he established a status as an architect working for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch atelier. His motives for emigrating to Croatia remain unknown (Croatian lands and Czech lands were part of one empire at the time). Upon arrival, he enrolled in the Royal crafts school, graduating in 1896. Work Arranged chronologically: * Pečić House - 43 Ilica st. (1899) * Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb (1902) * Rado House - 5 Ban Jelačić square Ban Jelačić Square (; ) is the central squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Baća
Robert Baća (born 19 September 1949 – died 7 August 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia) was a Croatian sculptor and painter. Baća graduated from the academy in Zagreb in 1974. He was an assistant at the Antun Augustinčić masterworks. He worked in sculpture and abstract ceramics with associative nuances and accented dimensions. (''Wood'', 1971; ''Forest'' 1975). He also worked with coloured porcelain objects. He has exhibited his works in Zagreb, Samobor, Sesvete, Sisak, Zürich and Liechtenstein. Works *1967 – First collective exhibition at the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb *1969 – Graduated from the School of Applied Arts, Department of Ceramics, in the class of Prof. Slavko Barlović *1974 – Graduated sculpture at the Academy for Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of Prof. Ivan Sabolić. In the same year he became member of the Croatian Society of Visual Artists in Zagreb *1976 – Baća became member of the Croatian Association of Applied Arts and Croatian Artists' Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubo Babić
Ljubomir Tito Stjepan Babić (14 June 1890 – 14 May 1974) was a Croatian artist, museum curator and literary critic. As an artist, he worked in a variety of media including oils, tempera, watercolour, drawing, etching, and lithography. He was one of the most influential figures in the Zagreb art scene between the two world wars. He collaborated with director Branko Gavella in creating a series of set designs for the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. In 1940 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb. He held exhibitions at home and abroad and published many articles on art history and critiques of contemporary art events. He wrote and illustrated many books, worked on designs for posters, interiors and decorative arts objects. Biography Ljubomir Tito Stjepan Babić was born in Jastrebarsko on 14 June 1890, the son of Judge Antun Babić and Milka (née Kovačić), and nephew of the author Ljubo Babić (better known as Ksaver Šandor Gjalski). The Babić ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Axmann
Viktor Axmann (given name: Vladoje Aksmanović; 29 August 1878, Osijek, Croatia – 3 March 1946, Valpovo, Croatia) was a Croatian architect. He spent most of his life in Osijek, but he died in 1946 in a Yugoslav Partisans, communist Valpovo work camp, labor camp in Valpovo. He finished the Technical University Munich, Technical College in Munich, Germany. Afterwards, he specialized in Vienna, Austria, where he got in touch with contemporary ideas of urban architecture of Josef Hoffman, Otto Wagner, and Camillo Sitte. In 1905, he became a construction entrepreneur in Osijek, where he built numerous secession (art), secession-style buildings. His most important work of that period was the Urania Cinema (built-in 1912),Anne Teffo ''Croatie'' 2009 - Page 325 "Construit en 1912 sur les plans de l'architecte Viktor Axmann, il a toujours conservé sa vocation placée devant la Chambre des communes à Londres) et qui a réalisé à Osijek le Monument aux victimes du fascisme, sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antun Augustinčić
Antun Augustinčić (4 May 1900 – 10 May 1979) was a Croatian sculptor active in Yugoslavia and the United States. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić, he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century. His most notable sculptures include the ''Peace'' monument which stands in front of the United Nations building in New York City, the ''Miner'' statue in front of the International Labour Organization headquarters in Geneva, and the sculpture of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, present in several copies throughout former Yugoslavia. Early life Augustinčić was born in the small town of Klanjec in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region in northern Croatia, which was at the time part of Austria-Hungary. In 1918 he enrolled at the Arts and Crafts College in Zagreb, where he studied sculpting under professors Rudolf Valdec and Robert Frangeš. After the college became the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1922, he studied under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
