Ivan Tabaković

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Ivan Tabaković (1898-1977) was a Serbian painter born in Arad, Hungary. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, and afterwards, at the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb. In the autumn of 1922, he left for Munich, only temporarily interrupting his studies in Zagreb. For two semesters he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, in the class of Professor Becher Gundal, as well as Hans Hofmann's private school.

In the year 1926, Tabaković was engaged as a part time drawer at the Institute of Anatomy, a department of the Medical School at the University in Zagreb. He moved to Novi Sad in 1930. He started his pedagogical work in 1938 at the School for Applied Arts in Belgrade. After the foundation of the Academy of Applied Arts (in 1948), he continued his work at the Ceramics Department. He became a member of SASA in 1965.

Tabaković won a Grand Prix for ceramics on the World exhibition in Paris 1937.