Jugoslawischer Bildhauer - Ivan Me Trovi, Marko Poga Nik, Du an D Amonja, Drago Tr AR, Miroslav Upan I, Vojin Baki (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ivan Me trovi (.)) (August 15, 1883 - January 16, 1962) was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor born in Vrpolje, Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, an autonomous kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matter since the Renaissance, the first living person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He spent his childhood in Otavice, a small village located on edge of Petrovo field in Dalmatian hinterland. At the age of sixteen, a master stone cutter from Split Pavle Bilini noticed his talent and he took him as an apprentice. His artistic skills were improved by studying the monumental buildings in the city and his education at the hands of Bilini 's wife, who was a high-school teacher. Soon, they found a mine owner from Vienna who paid for Me trovi to move there and be admitted to the Art Academy. He had to quickly learn German from scratch and adjust to the new environment, but he persevered and successfully finished his studies. The Source of Life (1905, fountain in front of Croatian National Theatre in ZagrebIn 1905 he made his first exhibit with the Secession Group in Vienna, noticeably influenced with the Art Nouveau style. His work quickly became popular, even with the likes of Auguste Rodin, and he soon earned enough for him and his wife (since 1904) Ru a Klein to travel to more international exhibitions. In 1908 Me trovi moved to Paris and the sculptures made in this period earned him international reputation. in this time, Ivan was friend of the cubist painter Jelena Dorotka (Helene Dorotka von Ehrenwall). In 1911 he moved to Belgrade, and soon after to Rome where he received the grand prix for the Serbian Pavilion on the 1911 Rome International Exhibition. He remained in Rome to spend four years studying ancient Greek sculpture. In the onset of the World War I, a...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de