Igor Zidić (born 10 February 1939
) is a
Croatia
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n art historian, art critic, poet and essayist. He is considered an expert on Croatian modern art.
Zidić was born in
Split
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Arts, enter ...
, where he graduated from the
Classical Gymnasium. He obtained a diploma in art history and comparative literature from the
University of Zagreb
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in 1964. Zidić became the editor of ''Hrvatski tjednik'' in 1971, but lost his job after the magazine was shut down by the Yugoslavian government.
Zidić was a director of
Modern Gallery in Zagreb from 1989 to 2008. From 2002–14, he was the president of
Matica hrvatska
Matica hrvatska () is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyrian movement during ...
. In 1986, Zidić received the
Tin Ujević Award for poetry.
Zidić is a father of six children.
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1939 births
Living people
Writers from Split, Croatia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni
Croatian art historians
Croatian art critics
Croatian essayists
Male essayists
20th-century Croatian poets
20th-century Croatian historians
Directors of museums in Croatia
Croatian male poets
20th-century essayists
20th-century Croatian male writers
21st-century Croatian historians
Presidents of the Matica hrvatska
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