(b Klanjec, nr Zagreb, 17 April 1869; d Klanjec, 4 July 1939). Croatian painter and teacher. He studied painting in Zagreb under Ferdo Quiquerez and from 1886 he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, where he studied with Christian Griepenkerl (1839-1916) and August Eisenmenger (1830-1907). In 1892 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, under Wilhelm von Lindenschmidt (1829-95) and also took master classes with Ferdinand Keller (1842-1922) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe. From 1895 he taught at the School of Arts and Crafts (now School for Applied Art and Design) in Zagreb and from 1908 to 1927 at the Art School (later Academy of Fine Arts) in the same city. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th he was the most important history painter working in Croatia and the most prolific. Attracted by Vlaho Bukovac's Divisionist technique and his use of light, he adopted a palette of plein-air colours and skilfully incorporated them into his historical genre paintings. Some of his best-known works are Nikola Zrinski Before the Charge from Siget (1890; Zagreb, Hist. Mus. Croatia), the Coronation of King Tomislav (1905; Zagreb, Gal. Mod. A.), the Arrival of the Croats (1905), the Croats Choosing Koloman for their King in 1102 (1906; both Zagreb, Golden Hall) and the Battle of Stubica (1919; Zagreb, Hist. Mus. Croatia).
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