Ivan Rabuzin (27 March 1921 – 18 December 2008)[1] was a Croatian naïve artist. French art critic Anatole Jakovsky described him in 1972 as "one of the greatest naïve painters of all times and countries".[2]
Ivan Rabuzin | |
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| Born | March 27, 1921 |
| Died | December 18, 2008 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Naïve art |
Rabuzin's father was a miner, and Ivan was the sixth of his eleven children. Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years, and did not begin painting until 1956, when he was thirty-five years old. He had little formal training as an artist, but his first solo exhibition in 1960[3] proved successful and he changed careers, becoming a professional painter in 1962.[4] His 1963 exhibition in Galerie Mona Lisa in Paris marked the beginning of the rise of his international reputation.[3]
Rabuzin's art is characterized by dense geometric patterns of vegetation and clouds that form rich, arabesque-like structures painted in gentle pastel colors.[3] His motifs were described as an "idealistic reconstruction of the world".[3] He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Rabuzin decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.[5] In 1989, at the time of the 9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, municipalities from Zagorje, Gospić, Karlovac and Sisak region provided a mural by Ivan Rabuzin as a commemorative gift for a building in Knez Mihailova Street.[6]
Rabuzin was active in politics as a member of Croatian Democratic Union, and from 1993 to 1999 he was also a member of the Croatian Parliament (in the second and third assemblies).
Rabuzin stopped painting in 2002 due to an illness.[2] He died on 18 December 2008 in a hospital in Varaždin, Croatia.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Earth Times: Show/247087,croatian-naive-painter-rabuzin-dies-at-87.HTML". Archived from the original on 10 July 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^ a b "The 95th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Rabuzin". hmnu.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Museum of Naïve Art. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Klasik hrvatske i svjetske naive" (PDF). Vjesnik (in Croatian). 20 December 2008. p. 14. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ "Galerie St. Etienne, Ivan Rabuzin". Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2006.
- ^ [Anon.] (1976). "Faenza-Goldmedaille für SUOMI". Artis. 29: 8. ISSN 0004-3842.
- ^ n.a. (n.d.). "Mural Ivana Rabuzina". Nesvrstani.rs, Museum of African Art, Belgrade. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
External links
edit- Rabuzin Fine Art - Rabuzin silkscreens and information source on the artist's life and Work Archived 24 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- Ivan Rabuzin Gallery - Artist's homepage
- Rabuzin oil paintings, Rabuzin serigraphs, Rabuzin prints
- http://fineartcritics.blogspot.com/2010/02/ivan-rabuzin-1921-2008.html
- Raw Vision
- Artnet.com
- Galerie St. Etienne
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