Robert Baća (born 19 September 1949 – died 7 August 2019 in
Zagreb,
Croatia) was a Croatian
sculptor and
painter
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. Baća graduated from the academy in Zagreb in 1974. He was an assistant at the
Antun Augustinčić masterworks. He worked in
sculpture and
abstract ceramics with associative nuances and accented dimensions. (''Wood'', 1971; ''Forest'' 1975). He also worked with coloured
porcelain objects. He has exhibited his works in Zagreb,
Samobor,
Sesvete
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,
Sisak
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,
Zürich and Liechtenstein.
Works
*1967 – First collective exhibition at the
School of Applied Arts
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in Zagreb
*1969 – Graduated from the School of
Applied Arts, Department of
Ceramics, in the class of Prof. Slavko Barlović
*1974 – Graduated
sculpture at the Academy for
Fine Arts
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in Zagreb, in the class of Prof. Ivan Sabolić. In the same year he became member of the Croatian Society of Visual Artists in Zagreb
*1976 – Baća became member of the Croatian Association of
Applied Arts and Croatian Artists' Community, and started work as an independent
artist
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. For two years, he continued his professional training in the master
workshop of the sculptor Prof.
Antun Augustinčić in Zagreb
*1978 – Completed postgraduate studies in
sculpture in the master workshop of the sculptor Prof. Antun Augustinčić in Zagreb. Held his first one-man exhibition in Zagreb.
*1985 – The
Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb purchased three of his
porcelain sculptures for its permanent holdings.
*1995 – Robert Baća is listed in the
Encyclopedia of Croatian Art
Bibliography
*Baričević, M. "Povijest moderne keramike u Hrvatskoj", Zagreb, 1986, page 121;
*Baričević, M. "Suvremena keramika u Hrvatskoj", Zagreb, 1994, pages 108–110;
*Baričević, M. "Enciklopedija hrvatske umjetnosti", Robert Baća, Zagreb, 1995, page 42
External links
Robert Baća web gallery
20th-century Croatian sculptors
21st-century Croatian sculptors
20th-century Croatian painters
Croatian male painters
21st-century Croatian painters
21st-century Croatian male artists
1949 births
Living people
Artists from Zagreb
20th-century Croatian male artists
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