Živa Kraus (born 4 October 1945 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian painter.
Early life
Kraus was born in
Zagreb
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to a
Jew
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ish family, father Ivo Kraus and mother Herma (
née
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Delpin). Her twin brother is
Ognjen Kraus, president of the Jewish community in Zagreb.
Education and later years
She studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, where she organized her first solo exhibition. In the 1970 Kraus was the assistant to
Peggy Guggenheim
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.
Kraus is the owner of the Ikona gallery in
Venice
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, Italy, where she came in 1971.
She currently resides in Venice.
See also
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Ognjen Kraus
References
Bibliography
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1945 births
Living people
Artists from Zagreb
Croatian Jews
Croatian people of Czech-Jewish descent
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb alumni
20th-century Croatian painters
21st-century Croatian painters
Jewish painters
Croatian expatriates in Italy