Celebrating 140 years of Ivan Meštrović with retrospective of global works in Zagreb
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Well of Life (1905), by Ivan Meštrović, fountain in front of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (Photo: SpeedyGonsales/Public domain)
ZAGREB, 21 Nov (Hina) – Everything is ready for the opening of a retrospective exhibition of works of famous Croatian sculptor and architect Ivan Meštrović in Zagreb’s Klovićevi Dvori Gallery on the occasion of the 140 anniversary of his birth.
The exhibition, which will open on 23 November and runs through 3 March, includes more than two hundred selected exhibits arriving from all over the world.
The exhibition “will enable the Croatian and international audiences to learn about Meštrović’s work through an anthological review of his artistic formation with his best works of art coming from many countries such as the United States of America, England, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Serbia and, of course, mostly from the Republic of Croatia,” the gallery says on its website.
The Spearman by Ivan Meštrović (Photo credit: Ponor/Public Domain)
Ivan Meštrović was born in Vrpolje, eastern Croatia, and spent his childhood in the small Dalmatian village of Otavice, the native place of his parents. He died in the USA in 1962.
Ivan Meštrović (Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)/Public Domain)
He is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matter since the Renaissance, the first living person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and was also the first artist of Croatian origin to exhibit his work at that museum.
