Đuro Seder (29 November 1927 – 2 May 2022) was a Croatian painter. He lived and worked in

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Career

At the beginning of his career he worked as an illustrator, image editor, and designer at various magazines. He was one of the founding members of the Gorgona Group, whose active members between 1959 and 1966 were Miljenko Horvat,

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(who also worked under the name Mangelos), Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar,

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, and Josip Vaništa. During the Gorgona period he was more active in the group than with solo presentations, and his work was marked by the

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-influenced disintegration of form, negation of traditional painting techniques, and reduced use of colours, which can be seen for example in his works, ''Anonymous Form'', (1963) and ''Little Signs'' (1964). Seder also contributed to the group's publication of the same name, and wrote texts and poetry in the literary magazines ''Razlog'', ''

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'' and '' Republika''. In 1978 his collection of poems ''Father from the Pot'' was published by BiblioTEKA in Zagreb. At the beginning of the 1970s Seder radically changed his mode of painting; he began using a wider range of colours, realistic figurative forms, and expressive gestures.Beroš, Nada ''Highlights: Collection in Motion'', p.26 (Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb 2010) He worked at the

Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb The Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb ( hr, Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu or ALU) is a Croatian art school based in Zagreb. It is one of the three art academies affiliated with the University of Zagreb, along with the Academy of Dramatic Art ...

(from 1981 on) where he was later appointed Professor Emeritus. He exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad, including: ''The Post-War Generation Painting'', Art Gallery (Dubrovnik, 1960), Art Gallery (Split, 1960) and, Studio G (1960), ''Sixty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Croatia'',

Art Pavilion in Zagreb The Art pavillion in Zagreb ( hr, Umjetnički paviljon u Zagrebu) is an art gallery in Zagreb, Croatia. The pavilion is located on the Lenuci Horseshoe, Donji grad(Zagreb), Lower town area of the city, south of Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square, on th ...

(1961), ''Đuro Seder'', Gallery SC (Zagreb, 1964), ''Seder'', Gavella Theatre (Zagreb, 1973), ''Informel 1956-1962'', Gallery Nova (Zagreb, 1977) and the

Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade) The Museum of Contemporary Art ( sr, Музеј савремене уметности, Muzej savremene umetnosti) is an art museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1958 as the Modern Gallery, making if one the first museums of this t ...

, (1977), ''Arte contemporanea'', Valle Giulia, Galeria Nazionale (Rome, 1979), ''Abstract Tendencies in Croatia 1951–1961'', Modern Gallery, (Zagreb, 1981), ''Gorgona and After'', Student Centre Gallery (Belgrade, 1986), ''(Un)recognizable Painting'', National Museum of Contemporary History (Ljubljana, 1994), ''Đuro Seder Parisian Cycle – 1988'', Gallery Forum (Zagreb, 2003) and, ''A Fight with an Angel'', Gallery Arh (Rijeka, 2005) and at the Academia Moderna (Zagreb, 2009). He received many honours and awards, including: the

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for Painting (1986), the Medal of the

Order of Danica Hrvatska The Order of Danica Hrvatska ( hr, Red Danice hrvatske; lit. "Order of the Croatian Morning Star") is the fourteenth most important medal given by the Republic of Croatia. The order was founded on 1 April 1995. The medal is awarded for different p ...

with the image of Marko Marulić for his contribution to the arts, and the Vladimir Nazor Life Achievement Award (2002).

Published works on Đuro Seder

* Kusik, Vlastimir & Rus, Zdenko, ''Seder'' (ArTresor studio, Zagreb, 2002).

References

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