Dimo Todorovski (

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: Димо Тодоровски; 1910 in

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– 1983 in

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), was a prominent

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Education and career

Two years after his birth, his family returned to his hometown of Prilep, then in Ottoman Empire. In 1917, his father died, and from 1920 to 1929 he resided in an Yugoslav Home for War Orphans in Bitola. In 1929–1935, he attended the art school in Belgrade. From 1945 to 1979, he contributed to the formation of an art school in Skopje and became one of the first professors, a position from which Todorovski retired in 1979. He was also a founding member of the art gallery in Skopje in 1949. In 1969 he was elected a corresponding member of the

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Artistic style

His artistic style varied between lyric and epic dramatic and realistic academic treatment of form.

Accomplishments

His works are part of the national collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje. During his life he realized a number of sculptures of different formats,

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, and many public monuments around the country. His most famous is the monument at Mečkin Kamen (Bear's Rock) memorial in

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, which has turned into one of the national symbols of the

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. He is considered to be the founder of

sculpting. External links
Works of Dimo Todorovski

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Todorovski, Dimo 1910 births 1983 deaths Artists from Thessaloniki People from Salonica vilayet Macedonian sculptors Macedonian painters Macedonian artists 20th-century sculptors Yugoslav painters