Antun Augustinčić

Antun Augustinčić ( born May 4, 1900 in Klanjec in Zagorje, † May 10, 1979 in Zagreb) was a Yugoslav sculptor.

Life

Antun Augustinčić was born on 4 May 1900 at the time of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia belonging Klanjec. He attended elementary school in Klanjec, school in Zagreb and studied from 1918 sculpture at the Art Academy of Zagreb, with Rudolf Valdec and Robert Frangeš Mihanović, starting in 1922 with Ivan Mestrovic. After his graduation he received in 1924 a French scholarship, and Augustinčić attended the École supérieure until 1926 Decorative Arts and the Académie des Beaux -Arts, among other things, in the class of Jean -Antoine Injalbert. The works by Bourdelle, Donatello, Michelangelo and Rodin practiced at that time a great influence on him.

After his return to Zagreb, he participated in various exhibitions graphics: 1926 in Zagreb, and in 1927 in Lviv, Split and Zagreb. In 1929 he was among the founders of the artists group "Earth" (in Croatian Zemlja ) and was elected the same year to its Deputy Chairman. With the group Earth, he has exhibited his works in 1929, 1931 and 1932 in Zagreb, and in 1931 in Paris; but separated in 1933 by the group.

By participating in numerous public competitions for monuments, he intensified from the 1930s, his work of public monuments worldwide. 1940 Augustinčić corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts ( JAZU ) and 1946 Professor (and later rector ) at the Art Academy of Zagreb. In 1949 he is a permanent member of the JAZU and ran at the time a master workshop of sculpture.

1970 gave Augustinčić his hometown Klanjec a large part of his works, which are exhibited in the gallery Antun Augustinčić since 1976. Other of his works can be found among others in the Serbian National Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art - both in Belgrade. Augustinčić died in 1979 at the age of 79 years.

Work (selection)