THE ITEM:
"IVAN MEŠTROVIĆ"
Ivan Meštrović 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's Stone Workshop in Split and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was formed under the influence of the Secession. He traveled throughout Europe and studied the works of ancient and Renaissance masters, especially Michelangelo, and French sculptors Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol. He was the initiator of the national-romantic group Medulić (he advocated the creation of art of national features inspired by the heroic folk songs). During the First World War, he lived in emigration. After the war, he returned to Croatia and began a long and fruitful period of sculpture and pedagogical work. In 1942 he emigrated to Italy, in 1943 to Switzerland and in 1947 to the United States. He was a professor of sculpture at the Syracuse University and from 1955 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Most of his early works of symbolic themes were formed in the spirit of the Secession, some of which, like the Well of Life, show impressionist restless surfaces created under the influence of Rodin's naturalism, and the second, reviving national myth, become stylized monumental plastics (Kosovo cycle, 1908-1910). Before the First World War, he left pathetic epic stylization, expressing increasingly emotional states, as evidenced by the wooden reliefs of biblical themes made in a combination of Archaic, Gothic, Secessionist and Expressionist styles. During the 1920s and 1930s, the classical component prevailed in his works. In this period, he created a number of public monuments of strong plastic expression, pronounced and legible shapes (Grgur Ninski and Marko Marulić in Split, Andrija Medulić, Andrija Kačić-Miošić and Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Zagreb, Pobednik in Belgrade, Svetozar Miletić in Novi Sad and The Bowman and The Spearman in Chicago). Portraits take a special place in his opus.
Meštrović achieved works of strong plastic value in the construction-sculptural monuments and projects, mostly with central layout (the Mausoleum of the Račić family in Cavtat, the Mausoleum of the Meštrović family in Otavice, the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb, Monument to the Unknown Hero in Belgrade). He also designed a memorial church of King Zvonimir in Biskupija near Knin inspired by old Croatian churches, a representative family palace, today the Ivan Meštrović Gallery, and reconstructed renaissance fortified mansion Crikvine-Kaštilac in Split.
(WIKIPEDIA)
BY
DUŠKO KEČKEMET
Duško Kečkemet (June 4, 1923 – Split , May 12, 2020) was a Croatian scientist and art historian. He worked as the director of the Split City Museum and the Meštrović Gallery, as a professor of art history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Split. He studied and published the historical, cultural and artistic heritage of Split and Dalmatia, especially from the 19th and 20th centuries. Art critic in Split and permanent contributor to several encyclopedias and editions of the Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb. He was an analyst of numerous cultural and social, especially Split, urban problems.
He is the winner of several awards: the annual award of the city of Split and the city of Zagreb, for the lifetime achievement of the city of Split, the County of Split-Dalmatia, Slobodna Dalmacija, the award for the lifetime achievement of the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Society of Art Historians, the Knight of the French Order of Arts and Literature.
(WIKIPEDIA)
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY
IVO PERVAN
Pervan, Ivo, Croatian art photographer (Zadvarje near Omiš, 24 June 1947). He has been professionally engaged in photography since 1976. He captures the natural and monumental heritage of Croatia with a fine artistic sense for the selection of details and skillful and poetic construction of light. Author of a large number of photo monographs: Ivan Meštrović (with D. Kečkemet, 1983), Dalmatia: the legend of light (with V. Barbieri, 1991), Croatia: coast and sea (with I. Šimat-Banova, 2000), Dubrovnik by himself ( with L. Paljetka, 2001), Zagreb, Zagreb (with Ž. Čorak, 2003), Colors of Croatia, 2010.
(www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica)
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THE PUBLISHER:
NOLIT
BEOGRAD
1983
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