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Zoran Mušič (12 February 1909 – 25 May 2005), baptised as Anton Zoran Musič, was a Slovene painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the only painter of Slovene descent who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of Italy and France, particularly Paris in the second half of the 20th century, where he lived for most of his later life. He painted
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, still lifes,
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s, and self-portraits, as well as scenes of horror from the Dachau concentration camp and
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of
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Life

Zoran Mušič was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Bukovica, a small village in the
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near
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, in what was then the Austrian
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(now in
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). Mušič's father Anton was the headmaster of the local school, and his mother Marija (née Blažič) was a teacher there. Both parents were
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from the
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region: his father was from the village of Šmartno in the
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- Brda Collio, and his mother was born in the hamlet of Kostanjevica in the village of Lig.G. Zupan, Biography, Videnja Zorana Mušiča, Ljubljana, 2012. Mušič's father was mobilized and served on various battlefields during the First World War. In 1915, during the Battles of the Isonzo, the family (his mother with two children) was forced to flee to Arnače, a village near
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in the Duchy of Styria, where Zoran attended elementary school. In the spring of 1918, toward the end of
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, the family moved back to Gorizia, but they were expelled again in late August 1919 by the
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authorities, which had occupied the region. They moved to Griffen in Carinthia, but were expelled once again by the Austrian authorities after the
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in late October 1920. They finally settled in
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, then part of the
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. Mušič attended two high schools in Maribor till September 1928. After, he visited
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for a short time. Between 1930 and 1935 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in
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. Mušič spoke Slovene,
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, Croatian,
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, French and some Friulian. After graduation in 1934, he travelled extensively around Europe. He spent three months (April to June 1935) in Spain, mainly
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. Later he served his obligatory army service in Bileća (November 1935 to July 1936) in Yugoslavia. Later he spent each summer in Dalmatia while being based in Maribor and nearest village Hoče. In 1940, he moved to
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permanently. During this period (1942), he painted in two churches in his native
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region, together with his friend, painter Avgust Černigoj ( Drežnica, Grahovo) and later one in village Gradno with another Slovenian painter Lojze Spacal. In October 1943, he moved to
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and for some weeks for the first time to
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. He had his first one-man show (outside Yugoslavia) in Trieste and several months later in Venice. In early October 1944, he was arrested by the
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forces because he was in a group of Slovene anti-fascists. The group had hidden transmitter and was connected with British IS. His drawing and painting in Venice raised suspicions that he was a spy, and a month later he was sent to Dachau concentration camp, where he made more than 180 sketches of life in the camp, some under extremely difficult circumstances. From the drawings, mainly executed in May 1945, he managed to save around one hundred (some more with his friends). After liberation by
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on April 29, 1945, Mušič returned to his hometown Ljubljana in early June. There, he was sent to a hospital (Golnik). A month later he was subjected to the pressures by the newly established
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and moved to Gorizia at the end of July 1945. In the following months he travelled in the area of
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and Istria, spending some time in
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( Buzet). In October 1945 he settled in Venice with the help of family Cadorin and returned to the painting. In September 1949 he married the Venetian painter Ida Cadorin Barbarigo there. He also painted a room in Vila Dornacher near Zuerich at the same period. In 1950 he prepared huge tapestry: Marco Polo and his way to China for the passenger ship Augustus. At the same time he won the Gualino prize and in 1956 the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the
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. In 1951 he was awarded the Prix de Paris, (jointly with
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) for his colorful paintings of Dalmatia. After 1952 he lived mainly in Paris, where the 'lyrical abstraction' of the French Informel determined the art world. Throughout this period he kept his studio in Venice and exhibited again at the Biennale in 1960, when he was awarded the
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Prize. The much acclaimed series ''We Are Not the Last'', in which the artist transformed the terror of his experiences in the concentration camp into documents of universal tragedy, was made in the 1970s. His last achievement were series of Selfportratis and Double portraits. He had problems with his eyesight in his old age. Partly blind, he signed his last drawings in 2000. In 1981 Mušič was appointed '' Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres'' in Paris. Mušič's work has been honoured in numerous international exhibitions, such as the large retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1995, opened by the French and Slovenian presidents François Mitterrand and
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. At the same time Austrians promised him a permanent exhibition in Klagenfurt. It was never established. A huge part of his works was taken from his studio and never returned to the painter or his wife. In 1991, Mušič was given the Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement, the highest decoration in the field of the arts in
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. Some of Mušič's works have been featured at Piran Coastal Galleries.Obalne galerije Piran – Arhivi – ZORAN MUŠIČ , 1909–2005 , Slike, gvaši, risbe
/ref> Gallery Zala from Ljubljana prepared 7 exhibitions (4 in Ljubljana, one in: Belgrade, Vienna and London). A big retrospective was prepared in Modern Gallery from Ljubljana in November 2009. Academy of Sciences from Slovenia published a monograph, written by 20 authors from Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Italy and France (Vizije Zorana Mušiča) November 2012. First permanent exhibition of his prints was open in Dobrovo (Brda) in 1991. Only permanent exhibition of his different works (paintings, prints, drawings) was open in National Gallery in Ljubljana in 2016. Bigger temporary exhibition of selected works was prepared in Lugano, Collezione Braglia in October 2016. Another exhibition was in Venice at Fortuny Museum in spring 2018: A Tribute to Zoran Music, The Zurich Room. The Leopold Museum in Vienna opened a bigger retrospective exhibition in April 2018 with 167 selected works. He died in Venice in 2005 at the age of 96. He is buried in the local St. Michele cemetery.


Exhibitions (selection)

* 1942: ''Zoran Mušič.'' Galerija Obersnel, Ljubljana, (February) * 1944: ''Zoran Music. 25 oeuvres exposées.'' Piccola Galleria, Venice (June 17 – July 8) * 1960: ''Music. Peintures et gouaches.'' Galerie_de_France, Paris (February 26 – March 20) * 1964: ''Music. Zeichnungen und Graphik.'' Kunstmuseum Basel (May 9 – June 14) * 1967: ''Zoran Anton Music. Retrospektivna razstava.'' Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (April 14 – May 7) * 1978: ''Music, le temps d'une mémoire. Rétrospective: Toiles – Aquarelles – Gouaches – Dessins de 1951 à 1977.'' Galerie de France, Paris (April 4 – May 20) * 1992–93: ''Music, Arbeiten auf Papier von 1945 bis 1992.'' Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (November 25 – January 31) * 1995: ''Zoran Music.'' Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (April 4 – July 3) * 1995: ''Zoran Music. Nous ne sommes pas les derniers, Peintures, Dessins, Gravures.'' Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen (May 18 – August 16) * 1995–96: ''Zoran Music: Die späten Jahre.'' Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich (November 24 – January 14) * 1997: ''Zoran Music.'' Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt Main (April 24 – June 29) * 1997: ''Zoran Music.'' MMG Gallery, Tokyo (August) * 1998: ''Zoran Music: gli acquerelli veneziani 1947–1949.'' Museo Morandi – Instituzione Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (January 22 – April 13) * 2006: ''Music in Slovene private Collections (1935–1997).'' Galerija Zala, Ljubljana (November 24 – December 22) * 2009: ''A Spanish vision, February.'' National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana (12. February – March) * 2009: ''Zoran Mušič in private and public collections, November 2009 – February 2010.'' Modern Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana * 2009: ''Zoran Mušič v slovenskih zasebnih zbirkah III.'' Galerija Zala, Ljubljana (February) * 2016: ''Zoran Mušič, Permanent collection.'' National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana * 2018: ''Omaggio a Zoran Music. La Stanza di Zurigo.'' Museo Fortuny, Venezia (Febbraio) * 2018: ''Zoran Music. Poesie der Stille.'' Leopold Museum, Vienna (April 13 – August 6) * 2019: ''Zoran Music.'' Gallery W&K – Wienerroihter & Kohlbacher, Vienna (May 22 – September 13) * 2019: ''Music in Slovene private Collections VII.'' Galerija Zala, Ljubljana (June 6 – June 25) * 2019: ''Zoran Mušič. '' Galerija in antikvitete Novak, Ljubljana (October 24 – November 9) * 2020: ''Zoran Mušič.'' "The fascination of painting". Klagenfurt, (January 23 – March 1) * 2020: ''Zoran Mušič.''111 catalogues for the 111 Anniversary.'' National Gallery, Ljubljana. (February 11 – May 30) * 2020: ''Zoran Mušič.'' "Drawings from Dachau," Modern Gallery, Ljubljana. (February 27 – July 1) * 2022: ''Zoran Mušič.'' Il viaggio della vita, Galleria Comunale, Monfalcone. (8 Ottobre – 27 Novembre)


Museums and galleries

Austria *
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* Essl Museum – Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg/Vienna * StadtGalerie, Klagenfurt,
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Völkermarkt/Carinthia Chile * Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende,
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Croatia * Galerija Moderne umjetnosti,
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* Muzej moderne i sodobne umjetnosti, Rijeka France * Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen *
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, Paris * Musée National du Louvre,
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, prints * Centre National Georges Pompidou,
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, 10 drawings from Dachau * Musée Malraux,
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* Musée de Valence, Valence Germany * Museum Abteiberg,
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, Essen * Neue Pinakothek, München Italy * Galleria d´Arte Moderna,
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* Galleria internazionale d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro,
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* Museo Fortuny,
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* Galleria Nazionale, Roma, tapestry * GaMeC galleria, Bergamo, painting * Musei Provinciali di Gorizia,
Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gori ...
, paintings * Museo Morandi,
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* Musei Civici,
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* Museo Revoltella,
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, 24 drawings from Dachau * MAGI '900- Museum of Artistic and Historical Excellence, Pieve di Cento ( BO)
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museum,
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
* Stedelijk Museum,
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Slovenia * Nova Gorica Regional Museum / Castle Kromberk, Zoran Mušič Gallery,
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, permanent exhibition: prints * Pilon Gallery,
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City Museum of Ljubljana The City Museum of Ljubljana ( sl, Mestni muzej Ljubljana) was established in 1935. It is housed in Turjak Palace at 15 Gentry Street () in the centre of Ljubljana. The museum offers various pedagogical activities for children and students betwee ...
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, drawings, prints, paintings * Museum of Contemporary History,
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, print * National Gallery of Slovenia,
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, permanent exhibition: paintings, sketches, prints * Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, paintings, prints * Museum of White Carniola, Kambič Collection,
Metlika Metlika (; german: Möttling''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 10.) is a town in southeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Munici ...
, part of the permanent exhibition in the Kambič Gallery; paintings prints, drawings * Carinthia Art History Gallery, Slovenj Gradec Spain * Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,
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* Collecio IVAM,
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Sweden * Museum, Stockholm Switzerland * Kunstmuseum,
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* Fondazione Braglia,
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* Musée Jenisch,
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References


Further reading

* * Zoran KRŽIŠNIK, Tomaž BREJC, Ješa DENEGRI, Meta GABRŠEK PROSENC, Miklavž KOMELJ, Ivana SIMONOVIĆ ČELIĆ, Gojko ZUPAN, Jana INTIHAR FERJAN, Breda ILICH KLANČNIK, ZORAN MUŠIČ, V javnih in zasebnih zbirkah v Sloveniji, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 24. November 2009 * Nelida Silič NEMEC, Nace ŠUMI, Zoran KRŽIŠNIK, ''Galerija Zorana Mušiča, Grad Dobrovo, Stalna zbirka grafičnih del Zorana Mušiča'', Goriški muzej, Nova Gorica, 1991. * Ziva AMISHAI_MAISELS, ''Depiction and Interpretation'', Pergamon Press, Oxford, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, 1993. * ''Zoran Music'', Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Catalogue, Paris, 1995. * Gojko ZUPAN, ''Zorenje Zorana Mušiča med 1909 in 1935'', offprint, Ljubljana, 2006. * Gojko ZUPAN, Umetnik na tujem : Zoran Mušič – slovenski izseljenec, ''Mohorjev koledar'', Ljubljana, 2006. pp. 177–182. * Gojko ZUPAN, ''Zoran Mušič, Iz slovenskih privatnih zbirk II, Grafika (1931–1984)'', Ljubljana, 2008. * Gojko ZUPAN, ''Life and Work'', ''Zoran Mušič'', catalogue, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, 2009. * Gojko ZUPAN, Dachauske risbe Zorana Mušiča, ''Zbornik za Staneta Bernika'', Ljubljana, 2009. pp. 274–301. * Lydia Harambourg, Dictionnaire des peintres de l'École de Paris, 1945–1965, Éditions Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1993 (); nouvelle édition, 2010, p. 39, 355–358 () * Gojko ZUPAN, ''Biography'', ''Videnja Zorana Mušiča'', SAZU, Ljubljana, 2012. * Jean CLAIR, Vanda MUŠIČ, Gojko ZUPAN, Zoran MUŠIČ, From Ljuban, Milada and Vanda Mušič Collection, National Gallery, Ljubljana, 2016. English Edition, * Zoran Music,
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Pascal Bruckner Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckner ...
, Michael Prazan, Skira, Applicat-Prazan, 2016. * Hans-Peter WIPPLINGER, Ivan RISTIĆ, Gojko ZUPAN, Jean CLAIR, Marilena PASQUALI, Zoran Mušič : Poesie der Stille = poetry of silence : eopold Museum, Wien, 13. April bis 6. August 2018 * Gojko ZUPAN, ''Zoran Mušič, Iz slovenskih privatnih zbirk VII / Music in Slovene private collections VII,'', Catalogue, Ljubljana, 2019.


External links


A tribute to Zoran Music with photos and recent exhibitions

Zoran Mušič web page

Zoran Mušič biography on Widewalls




– Michael Glover, ''The Independent''
Venice Pays Homage to Zoran Music with Exhibition at Palazzo Franchetti
– artdaily.org
A life of wandering
– Andrew Lambirth, ''The Spectator'', 29 July 2000

{{DEFAULTSORT:Music, Zoran 1909 births 2005 deaths People from the Municipality of Renče-Vogrsko Slovenian male painters Slovenian printmakers Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Prešeren Award laureates Dachau concentration camp survivors Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb alumni Burials at Isola di San Michele Jakopič Award laureates 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 21st-century Italian painters Yugoslav artists 20th-century Italian male artists 21st-century Italian male artists