Vanja Radauš (29 April 1906 – 24 April 1975) was a
Croatian sculptor, painter and writer.
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Life
After attending elementary and high school in his home town of Vinkovci
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, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
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from 1924 to 1930. During World War II he participated in the National Liberation movement. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1969.
In 1975, he committed suicide. He is buried in the Mirogoj Cemetery
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in Zagreb
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Work
His early pieces (up to 1943) show the obvious influence of Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a u ...
and Bourdelle. After the war, he concentrated on several sculptural "cycles" including: ''Typhus'' (1956–59), ''Panopticum Croaticum'' (1959–61), ''Man and Limestone'' (1961–63) and ''Pillars of Croatian Culture'' (1969-75). His work ranges in size from medals to large monuments.
Available writings
*''Spomenici Slavonije iz razdoblja xvi do xix stoljeca'' (Monuments of Slavonia in the Nineteenth Century), Yugoslavian Academy of Science and Arts (1973)
*''Slavonijo, zemljo plemenita'' (Slavonia, the Noble Land; poetry), Privlacica (1994)
*''Budenje snova'' (Waking Dreams; poetry), Naklada Levak (2000)
References
External links
*Croatian Postal Service: Commemorative Stamp issue, with an appreciation of his wor
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1906 births
1975 deaths
People from Vinkovci
People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Croatian male poets
20th-century Croatian poets
20th-century Croatian sculptors
20th-century Croatian male writers
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
1975 suicides
Suicides in Yugoslavia
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery