Miljenko Horvat (1935–2012) was an artist, architect, author and illustrator, born in 1935 in

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, now

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. He spent much of his career in Canada.

Career

Horvat studied at Technical-architectural faculty of

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

, where Josip Vaništa was a professor. Horvat began to paint from an early age, and during the study of architecture has become the youngest member of the avant-garde group with an international reputation, Gorgona. His work within the group includes various projects: Gorgona - Then and Now, Neo Dada: Gorgona , Absurd Freedom, Socialism and Modernity, Marginal Specificities: Avant-Garde Art of ex-Yugoslavia 1914 - 1989, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art 1915 – 1989. After graduating in architecture, he left Zagreb in 1962 to work in Paris, and in 1966 he moved to Canada. Horvat's works are in numerous public, corporate and museum collections: the

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( en, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is situated in Battlefield Park and is a complex consisting of four bui ...

; Canada Council Art Bank; Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke;

Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Spencer Museum seeks to "...present its collection as a living archive that motivates object-c ...

; Collection of Marinko Sudac in Zagreb, and others. Few years after retirement he returned to

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where he died in 2012. Miljenko Horvat's work has been exhibited in over 150 exhibitions. He was active as a curator, designer and collector. He wrote and published poetry in the English language. His drawings have been published in several collections of the poetry of the Canadian writer and poet Alexis Lefrançois.

References

External links

http://miljenkohorvat.com/en/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Horvat, Miljenko 1935 births 2012 deaths University of Zagreb alumni Croatian architects