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Dotrščina
Dotrščina is a forest park in the northeast of Zagreb, Croatia. It is a protected area as the Dotrščina Memorial Cemetery and Park of the Revolution, because it is the historical site of mass executions in World War II. It is located north of the Maksimir forest park and south of the Medvednica mountain, and includes 365 cadastral acres (approx. 2 km2), mostly of forested area. History During the time of Zagreb in World War II, starting from May 1941, the Ustasha brought their victims here day and night, and killed them systematically. Victims were most often thrown into common pits, and therefore there is no insight into where anyone was buried. According to the latest research from 1985, it was estimated that around 7,000 anti-fascists were executed here, including around 2,000 members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. Some notable Croatian intelectualls who were executed here were Ivan Krndelj, Dr Božidar Adžija, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojin Bakić
Vojin Bakić ( sr-cyrl, Војин Бакић; 5 June 1915 – 18 December 1992) was a prominent Yugoslav sculptor. Educated at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and by Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić, Bakić's early works were dominated by a figurative depiction of female nudity with reduced breasts and closed volumes. After 1945, he moved towards the impressionistic treatment of the surface with expressive transitions of light and shadow without superfluous details, which, according to him, represented the expression of the joy of life, flash, and light, something he shared with his contemporaries who wanted to create a better and more humane world in post-World War II Yugoslavia. He was at first influenced by the socialist realism, but later shifted towards modernism in the late 50s, embracing the challenges of an open form, interior spaces and light reflections, being among the first sculptors in Croatia that followed the program principles of geometric - in his case mostl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Angeli Radovani
Kosta Angeli Radovani (6 October 1916 – 27 February 2002) was a Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. After World War II he was one of the founders of the Zagreb Academy of Applied Arts in 1950 where he was the head of the department of sculpture until the academy closed in 1955. From 1977 until his retirement in 1987 he worked as a professor at the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. He was a guest professor at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg in 1987, 1988 and 1991. In his artistic work, he primarily dealt with the human figure, and his oeuvre contains many nudes and portraits. He made over 30 large-scale public sculptures, such as the one dedicated to the Drežnica Uprising (1949), a monument dedicated to the Zagreb victims who died in WWII in Dotrščina, Zagreb (1988–1991) and the monument dedicated to Franjo Bučar located on the Sports Square, Zagreb (1991). A series of some 20 female nudes e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maksimir
Maksimir () is one of the districts of Zagreb, Croatia, population 48,902 (2011 census). Maksimir stadium and Maksimir Park are located in it. It was named for Bishop Maksimilijan Vrhovac. The urban center of the Maksimir district is located around the Maksimirska street, which is an area of dense commercial and residential usage. It spans from the Kvaternik Square, located on the southwestern border of the district, to the intersection of Maksimirska, Bukovačka and Svetice streets, which leads to the entrances to both the Maksimir park and the Maksimir stadium. The southeastern part of the district is a lowland that includes the Maksimir stadium and a large residential area best known as Ravnice (lit. "plains"). A substantial area in the east of the district is part of the Maksimir Park, one of the biggest parks in Zagreb. It also contains the Zagreb Zoo, which is the second-largest in Croatia; and five lakes, called the Maksimir lakes. The central part of the district is mostl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Ružić (sculptor)
Branko Ružić (4 March 1919 – 27 November 1997) was a prominent Croatian painter, sculptor and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. Early days Branko Ružić was born in Slavonski Brod to Katarina (born Blažeković) and Antun Ružić, as the youngest of four children. When he was six years old his parents moved him to Vinkovci where he started school. Ružić showed a passion and skill for drawing from an early age and by the time he was in secondary school, he was already recognized by his art teacher who used to take him, along with his more advanced colleagues (one of them was painter Slavko Kopač), to paint in the open air. After secondary school, Ružić has attended a few universities before he eventually entered the Academy of Fine Arts to study sculpture in 1940. He graduated under Ivo Lozica and Frano Kršinić in 1944. Although he already had a degree in sculpture he began a four–year painting course in professor Marino Tartaglia's class. He acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Cesarec
August Cesarec (4 December 1893 – 16 July 1941) was a Croatian writer and communist activist from the interwar period. Cesarec was born in Zagreb, then part of Austria-Hungary. He was the son of a carpenter who was a member of the Socialdemocratic Party, and August himself published a short story in the party's magazine as early as 1910. As a high-school student he became involved in radical nationalist politics and joined the group that tried to assassinate Croatian ban (viceroy) Slavko Cuvaj in 1912. For his role in the failed assassination he received a prison sentence of two years, which he served in Sremska Mitrovica penitentiary (in present-day Serbia). He was provisionally released after 21 months because he contracted tuberculosis. In prison he began to study books by Stirner and Kropotkin, which gradually led him to adopt Marxist philosophy. When World War I started, Austro-Hungarian police put him on a watchlist. In 1915 he was drafted in the Austro-Hungarian Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simo Crnogorac
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Dragutin Kiš
Dragutin (Cyrillic: Драгутин) is a masculine given name. Those bearing it include: * Stephen Dragutin of Serbia * Dragutin Topić * Dragutin Dimitrijević * Dragutin Mitić * Dragutin Tadijanović * Dragutin Šurbek * Dragutin Lerman * Dragutin Gavrilović * Dragutin Ristić * Dragutin Zelenović * Dragutin Domjanić * Dragutin Mate * Dragutin Čelić * Dragutin Čermak * Dragutin Babić * Dragutin Esser * Dragutin Novak * Dragutin Vrđuka * Dragutin Gostuški * Dragutin Tomašević * Dragutin Friedrich * Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger * Dragutin Stević-Ranković * Dragutin Brahm * Dragutin Vabec * Dragutin Karoly Khuen-Héderváry See also * Dragutinovo, former village * Dragutinović Dragutinović ( sr, Драгутиновић) is a Serbian patronymic surname derived from a masculine given name Dragutin. Notable people with the surname include: * Branko Dragutinović, football player * Diana Dragutinović, Minister of Finance ..., surname {{given name Slavic m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jure Kaštelan
Juraj "Jure" Kaštelan (18 December 1919 – 24 February 1990) was a Croatian poet and writer. Education and career Juraj "Jure" Kaštelan was born on 18 December 1919 in Zakučac in Dalmatia. He attended primary school in Split and then matriculated to the Zagreb Faculty of Arts, but the war interrupted his studies. In 1942 he joined the National Liberation Struggle and worked with the Partisan press. After the war, he completed his degree in Slavic languages and worked as a reporter for the newspaper ''Vjesnik'', as an editor for a publishing company called “Nopok,” and then as the assistant Chair of the department of Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb. From 1956-1958 he taught Serbo-Croatian language at the Sorbonne. In 1957 he defended his dissertation on the poetry of Antun Gustav Matoš. Afterwards he lectured on theory of literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Arts. In 1965 he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Literature, and in 1979 he became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
