Franjo Mraz (4 April 1910 in

Hlebine Hlebine is a municipality in Koprivnica-Križevci County in Croatia. It consists of two villages, Hlebine and Gabajeva Greda. History Hlebine is first mentioned 1671 as a village in the Drnje parish. It became an independent parish in the 18th ...

– 26 October 1981 in Brežice) was a notable Croatian

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...

. Together with Ivan Generalić and Mirko Virius, he is considered a founder of Croatian

naive art Naivety (also spelled naïvety), naiveness, or naïveté is the state of being naive. It refers to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of Deontology, moral idealism. A ''na ...

. His most famous paintings are "Oranje" ('Ploughing') and "Zima" ('Winter').

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