Ivan Rabuzin

Ivan Rabuzin
Born March 27, 1921
Ključ (part of Novi Marof),
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died December 18, 2008 (aged 87)
Varaždin, Republic of Croatia
Nationality Croatian
Known for Painting
Movement Naïve art

Ivan Rabuzin (27 March 1921 – 18 December 2008)[1] was a Croatian naïve artist.

Rabuzin's father was a miner, and Ivan was the sixth of his eleven children. Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years, and did not begin painting until 1956, when he was thirty-five years old. He had little formal training as an artist, but his first exhibition of paintings proved successful and he changed careers, becoming a professional painter in 1962.[2]

Rabuzin's paintings included Avenue and My Homeland.[3] He was active in politics as a member of Croatian Democratic Union, and from 1993 to 1999 he was also a member of the Croatian Parliament (in the second and third assemblies). He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Rabuzin decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.[4]

Rabuzin died 18 December 2008 in a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/247087,croatian-naive-painter-rabuzin-dies-at-87.html
  2. ↑ Galerie St. Etienne, Ivan Rabuzin
  3. ↑ http://www.hmnu.org/upload/vijesti/Hmnu0276.jpg
  4. ↑ [Anon.] (1976). "Faenza-Goldmedaille für SUOMI". Artis 29: 8. ISSN 0004-3842.

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