Still nature

Still nature

He was born in Slavonski Brod andbegan to study law in Zagreb, but his love for painting was stronger so he attended private art school. He spent some time in Munich where he attended drawing courses and finally he entered the Academy of Art in 1906 becoming the member of the Munich group of painters. After spending some time in Paris, he returned to Zagteb in1910 and organized his first exhibition.
His first works were done during his education in Munich and they have the characteristics of tradition, new modern academizm as well as special realizm. He paints portraits, nudes, but he finds courage to createmore complecated compostions. The complete synthesis of his talent and the Munich period is present in his «Still nature» from1909.
During his staying in Paris he got to know the works of Cesanne and Manette which influenced his painting.
1930s denote a new period of his work, colours became brighter and certain amount of monumentalizm is present. This is the period when «Fisherman», «The boy with the Corn», and «The peasants at Lunch» were painted. The war years resulted in more work in studio than in the open, so still natures dominated and he acquire the style which characterised his late period