Virgil Meneghello Dinčić (1876–1944) was a
Croatian painter and art teacher. He is best known as a member of the school of Split caricaturists,
but also painted scenes of Croatian life.
Life
Dinčić was born 19 March 1876 in
Split
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Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, entertai ...
. He was an active member of the Split literary and artistic club, together with
Emanuel Vidović,
Josip Lalić, and
Ante Katunarić.
With Katunarić, he contributed to ''
Duje Balavac'', a popular magazine known for its social and political satire.
His pupils included painter
Marino Tartaglia
Marino Tartaglia (3 August 1894 – 21 April 1984) was a Croatian painter and art teacher, for many years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb.
From 1948 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received t ...
.
Dinčić exhibited his works as a part of
Kingdom of Serbia's
pavilion
In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings:
* It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
at
International Exhibition of Art of 1911.
Gallery
File:Gajo Bulat cropped facingright.jpg, Portrait of Gajo Bulat
File:V. M. D. Dalmatian highlander.jpg, ''Dalmatian highlander''
References
External links
Digital versions of ''Duje Balavac''
1876 births
1944 deaths
19th-century Croatian painters
20th-century Croatian painters
Croatian male painters
19th-century Croatian male artists
20th-century Croatian male artists
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