Edo Murtic; Croatian abstract painter
Hyfler/Rosner
83
DATELINE: ZAGREB Jan 3
Paintings:
http://www.torbandena.com/murtic/cvem_e.html
http://www.amb-croatie.fr/culture/grandsetjeunes.htm
http://planeta.terra.com.br/educacao/croacia/Figuras/arte/EdoMurtic.jpg
http://www.comune.lissone.mi.it/pubb_lissnew/Comune/pinacoteca_reddot/EdoMurtic.htm
http://www.galerija-bj.si/murtic.htm
http://www.kic.hr/staro/html/murtic.htm
Croatia's most prominent abstract painter and graphic artist
as well as one of the masters of European abstraction of the
1960s and 1970s Edo Murtic has died here at the age of 83,
local media reported Monday.
Murtic, who died after a long illness at a Zagreb hospital
on Sunday, was one of the Balkan country's most important
artists of the post-World War II period.
Murtic's works figure in the collections of the world's most
prominent museums: the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Murtic was born in 1921 in the village of Velika Pisanica,
in northern Croatia. He studied painting at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Zagreb until 1943 when he joined Josip Broz
Tito's partisans who fought against the Germans and their
local allies.
During his service Murtic designed graphics, posters and
books and after the war enjoyed the support of the communist
regime using those privileges to travel to the United States
in the early 1950s.
There he converted from figurative painting to abstract
expressionism, which characterised his art with a sign of
great power and an aggressive use of colours.
