Julije Knifer

Julije Knifer ( born April 23, 1924 in Osijek, † December 7, 2004 in Paris) was a Croatian painter. He is regarded as the most important Croatian artists of the 20th century.

Life

Knifer studied in the early 1950s painting at the Art Academy in Zagreb. After graduation, he was co-founder and member of the " Gorgona Group," which was in Zagreb from 1959 to 1966 as an important segment of contemporary Croatian art. Is concentrated in the early 1960s in his work as a single formal element of the meander, which became the exclusive content of his work process. In countless variations and techniques of painting the same subject appeared again and again, at first only in black and white and later in color. Since 1973 he lived in Zagreb, Nice and finally in Paris, where he died.

Exhibitions

Julije Knifer presented during the lifetime of mainly known in galleries, in 1961 at the Galerie Denise René.

After his death, his works were still seen at the following exhibitions:

• Ligne B Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi -Pyrénées, Toulouse
• The Leopold Hoesch Museum New Tendencies, Düren
• Eye on Europe Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• The New Tendencies Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
• Living Art on the Edge of Europe Kröller -Müller Museum, Otterlo ( NL)
• Contact MUMOK, Vienna
• Essence of Life Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Essence of Life - Essence of Art Ludwig Museum, Budapest
• Prague Biennale 2

His work is represented in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Frac Bretagne, Château Giron, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz, MMSU Rijeka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik and at the Städtische Galerie Erlangen.