Franjo Mraz (April 4, 1910 in
Hlebine – October 26, 1981 in
Brežice
Brežice (; german: Rann ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain ( sl, Brežiško polje), which is part of t ...
) was a notable
Croatian artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
. Together with
Ivan Generalić and
Mirko Virius
Mirko Virius (October 28, 1889 – 1943) was a Croatian naïve painter. He was one of the three most prominent members of the first generation of the Hlebine School.
Virius was born in the village of Đelekovec near Koprivnica, where he compl ...
, he is considered a founder of Croatian
naive art. His most famous paintings are "Oranje" ("Ploughing") and "Zima" ("Winter").
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1910 births
1981 deaths
People from Hlebine
People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Croatian naïve painters
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