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Vjenceslav Richter (; 8 April 1917 – 2 December 2002) was a Croatian architect. He was also known for his work in the fields of urbanism, sculpture, graphic arts, painting and stage design.
Career
In 1949, Richter graduated at the Department of Architecture of the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb under professor
Zdenko Strižić.
He was one of the founding members of the Exat 51 group whose active members between 1950 and 1956 were the architects Bernardo Bernardi, Zdravko Bregovac,
Božidar Rašica
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Career
Rašica was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Serbian people, Serbian parents. He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and finally Zagreb, ...
and Vladimir Zaharović, and the painters Vlado Kristl,
Ivan Picelj
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Picelj developed a specific variation of geometric abstraction in Croatian painting by using primary colours and by reducing the sh ...
and
Aleksandar Srnec. He was also a member of the New Tendencies movement (from 1961). He designed exhibition pavilions (
Bruxelles 1958,
Turin
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and
Milan
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), several museum buildings, and was involved in industrial and interior design. From 1962 he began to explore the medium of sculpture, which resulted in the ''Reliefmeter'' series among many other works of art.
In 1955, Vjenceslav Richter organized the first Zagreb Triennial, an art and design festival that sought to bring together a wide range of design disciplines, including applied arts, industrial design, and fine arts. The second triennial was not held until four years later, and was equally unsuccessful in its aim of popularising
modernist
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design.
He exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad, including: the
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
The Museum of Arts and Crafts ( hr, Muzej za umjetnost i obrt) in Zagreb, Croatia, was established in 1880, by the initiative of the Arts Society and its former President Izidor Kršnjavi. Drawing on the theoretical precepts of England's Arts a ...
, (1964),
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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, Buffalo, (1968),
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
The Museum of Contemporary Art ( hr, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, often abbreviated to MSU) is a contemporary art museum located on Dubrovnik Avenue in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the biggest and most modern museum in the country.
History
The museum ...
, (1968), Staempfly Gallery, New York, (1968), Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich, (1969), at the
Venice Biennale
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(1972), Gallery 58, Rapperswill, (1972), Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, (1973), Galleria all Centro, Napoli, (1973), Galleria Visconti, Milan, (1976) and Galleria La Loggia, Udine, (1977).
He won many awards, including the City of Zagreb Award (1959), the Golden Medal at the 13th Triennial in Milan (1964), the 11th São Paulo Biennale Award for Sculpture (1971), and the
Herder Prize (1981). He received two life achievement awards: the Viktor Kovačić Award (1988) and the
Vladimir Nazor Award
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Named after the writer Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949), the prize is awarded to C ...
(1993). ''Geometry and Spontaneity'', a retrospective exhibition of his graphics, was organized at the HAZU (
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, hr, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, abbrev. HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia.
HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...
) Cabinet of Graphics (Zagreb, 2002).
The Richter Collection
The Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš-Richter Collection is housed in a villa in Vrhovec, Zagreb, and administrated by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Bibliography
*Ed. Susovski, Marijan, ''Richter Collection: The Conceptual Spaces of Vjenceslav Richter's Art Synthesis/Catalogue of the Richter Collection'', (Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2003).
References
External links
Richter Collection
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Croatian architects
Vladimir Nazor Award winners
1917 births
2002 deaths
Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb alumni
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
Herder Prize recipients
Yugoslav architects