Robert Baća (born 19 September 1949 – died 7 August 2019 in

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) was a Croatian

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and

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. Baća graduated from the academy in Zagreb in 1974. He was an assistant at the Antun Augustinčić masterworks. He worked in

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and abstract

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s with associative nuances and accented dimensions. (''Wood'', 1971; ''Forest'' 1975). He also worked with coloured

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objects. He has exhibited his works in Zagreb,

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and Liechtenstein.

Works

*1967 – First collective exhibition at the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb *1969 – Graduated from the School of

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, Department of

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, in the class of Prof. Slavko Barlović *1974 – Graduated

at the Academy for

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in Zagreb, in the class of Prof. Ivan Sabolić. In the same year he became member of the Croatian Society of Visual Artists in Zagreb *1976 – Baća became member of the Croatian Association of

and Croatian Artists' Community, and started work as an independent

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. For two years, he continued his professional training in the master

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of the sculptor Prof. Antun Augustinčić in Zagreb *1978 – Completed postgraduate studies in

in the master workshop of the sculptor Prof. Antun Augustinčić in Zagreb. Held his first one-man exhibition in Zagreb. *1985 – The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb purchased three of his

sculptures for its permanent holdings. *1995 – Robert Baća is listed in the Encyclopedia of Croatian Art

Bibliography

*Baričević, M. "Povijest moderne keramike u Hrvatskoj", Zagreb, 1986, page 121; *Baričević, M. "Suvremena keramika u Hrvatskoj", Zagreb, 1994, pages 108–110; *Baričević, M. "Enciklopedija hrvatske umjetnosti", Robert Baća, Zagreb, 1995, page 42

External links

Robert Baća web gallery
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