Ismet Rizvić ( Mostar, 1933 -

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1992) was a Bosnian artist.

Life

Rizvić was born in Mostar in 1933, but spent much of his life, and all of his working life, in

, where he studied the fine arts at the Pedagogical Academy. As a scholarship-holder, he spent time in London in 1966, studying the English watercolourists. Rizvić worked between 1963 and 1982 as a primary school teacher. He died on 9 December 1992 in Sarajevo.

Work

Rizvić first exhibited his works with the Bosnia and Herzegovina Artists' Association in 1957. He was a member of the Visual Artists' Association of Bosnia & Herzogovina from 1963. During his thirty-five years' work as an artist, he tool part in numerous joint exhibitions and held ten solo exhibitions. The Bosniak Institute has a collection of his work. Many of Rizvić's works are in private collections in Bosnia and around the world. In 2004, a monograph on the artist Ismet Rizvić was published, with 384 pages including 237 reproductions of his works.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rizvic, Ismet 1933 births 1992 deaths Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriates in the United Kingdom Artists from Mostar