Ivan Rendic - Supetar, Croatia - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

This bust of Ivan Rendic is located in the center of Supetar, small town on the Island of Brac in the Croatia.

Ivan Rendic (born in Imotski, August 27, 1849 - died June 29, 1932) was a Croatian sculptor.

He began sculpting early on in life, thanks to the stoneworking tradition of the island of Brac, where he was raised. He finished arts school in Venice in 1871 and afterwards became a part of the Fioretine sculpting atelier. Afterwards he mostly lived and worked in Trieste where he made the bulk of his works. In Croatia, most of his works were displayed in Zagreb and Split.

He was the first famous and educated Croatian sculptor. He worked in the Realist style with elements of naturalism, especially in finer details. Rendic made around 200 statues. His most famous works were public monuments raised in honour of famous Croats which remain over all parts of Croatia. For example, his statues of Andrea Schiavone, Giulio Clovio, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Ivan Gundulic, Nikola Jurišic and August Šenoa at Zrinjevac park in Zagreb, as well as of Petar Preradovic, Andrija Kacic Miošic also in Zagreb, and of Ljudevit Gaj in Krapina.

From 1921 he lived in Supetar, where he attempted in vain to form a school of arts. He finished his life in poverty.

Because of its support to Croatian renaissance movement and unification of Dalmatia with the rest of Croatia, he was the target of attacks of Italianists and Italian expansionists, especially during his work in Trieste. (Source: Wikipedia)

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