Stojan Batič

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Stojan Batič (b. February 2, 1925) is a Slovene sculptor.

Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Already as a teenager, he worked in the cocal coal mine. At the age of 19, he joind the partisan resistance which faught the Nazi German occupation. After the War, he enrolled to the newly established Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture under the supervision of professors Boris Kalin and Frančišek Smerdu. In 1957, he received a scolarship which enabled him to study in Paris with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine.

Batič is famous for his sculptures depicting events from the Slovene history, as well as European and Oriental myths and legends. His most famous works include the monument to the Slovene peasant revolts on the Ljubljana Castle, and the series of figurative scultures Itaka.

In 1960, Batič received the Prešeren Award, the highest prize for artistic and cultural achievements in Slovenia. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

[edit] See also

• List of Slovenian sculptors