Mato Celestin Medović
Celestin Mato Medović ( born November 17 1857 in Kuna on the Peljesac, Dalmatia, † January 20, 1920 in Sarajevo) was a Croatian painter.
Life
Celestin Mato Medović received his education at the Franciscan Franciscan monastery in Kuna, which is near his birthplace Kuna on the Peljesac peninsula. He joined at a young age in 1868 the Franciscan Order and was in the Franciscan monastery in Dubrovnik friar. There he passed the vows and chose the religious name of Celestin. We became aware in the monastery on Medović ' artistic talent. In 1880 he was sent for further training to Rome and received accommodation St. Isidoro ( Nazarene ) monastery. There Lodovic Seitz was his first art teacher. His second instructor was Giuseppe Grandi. In 1883, he came to Florence, there to visit the private art school of Antonio Ciseria.
In Italy, designed Mato Celestin Medović artistic some Franciscan monasteries, including Fuccechio, Faenza and Cesena. In 1886 he was sent by his Franciscan Guardian in Italy to Dubrovnik from home monastery back. By Dubrovnik intellectuals and the Venetian artist Emil Jacob Schindler supports and encourages continued Mato Celestin Medović his artistic training at the Art Academy in Munich continues. There he was inspired by the artistic works of Karl Piloty. He returned briefly in 1893 to Dubrovnik and came back soon after, in 1895 the Croatian group of artists around Blaise Bukovac in Zagreb at. From 1905 to 1907 he was active as an artist in the design of church buildings such as the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci, but also those in Požega and Nova Gradiška.
Celestin Mato Medović was a proponent of secularization. He resigned from the Franciscan Order and lived henceforth as of the year 1895 in Zagreb. From 1898 Medović had a home in his native Kuna and establish beyond a summer residence in Crkvice. Together with the Croatian artist Oton Iveković 1901 he presented his art within an art exhibition from. By 1907, he remains active in Zagreb. In time other art exhibitions followed with Croatian artists in Budapest, Copenhagen, Paris, Prague, Belgrade, Sofia and Zagreb. Lived after 1908 and he worked in his native Kuna, from 1912 to 1914 in Vienna. He died in 1920 in Sarajevo invalidated pulmonary distress.