Petar Grgec (January 27, 1933 - August 2, 2006) was a Croatian
Naïve Art
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ist, born in
Kloštar Podravski
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History
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Kloštar Podravski ...
in the region of
Podravina
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History
Between 1929 and 1941 a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia known as the ''Drava Banovina'' (Drava province) ...
,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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which is in present-day
Croatia
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Grgec graduated from the Civil Engineering Polytechnic in Pula in 1952. In 1953 he first exhibited his works at the Engineers Corps Art Section Show in Karlovac where he came on his military service and settled. Since 1958 he had been an active painter producing oils on glass, canvas, watercolours and drawings. He had over 30 solo exhibitions and took part in over 300 group shows in
Croatia
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and abroad. He was a member and co-founder of the association of Croatian Naïve Artists and a member of the Roman Academy I 500. His works are in the
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Laval, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in The Vatican, Metropolitan Museum in
Manila
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, Art Museum in
Sao Paulo
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, Croatian Museum of Naive Art in
Zagreb
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and elsewhere around the world. He lived and worked in Karlovac.
Sources
*The Miracle Of Croatian Naïve Art by Ratko Vince, Josip Depolo, Ivan Rogič Nehajev (Zagreb 1996)
See also
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Naïve Art
Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). When this aesthetic is ...