Ivan Lacković Croata

Ivan Lacković Croata (January 1, 1932 – August 29, 2004) was a Croatian naive painter. Lacković was born to a peasant family in the village of Batinske near Kalinovac. After completing his primary education, he worked as a laborer in fields and forests. This self-taught painter made his first watercolors, depicting village life, in 1944. He drew his first drawings in 1952. Lacković moved to Kloštar Podravski in 1954. He spent three years there, painting his first oils. Then he moved to Zagreb, where he worked as a mailman and post office worker. In 1962 he met Krsto Hegedušić and occasionally worked in his master workshop. His first one-man exhibition in the HAZU Cabinet of Graphics in 1964 established his reputation as a masterful draftsman. He left the post office job in 1968 and became a professional painter. He painted poetic scenes from his native region of Podravina in tempera and oil on glass (a traditional technique of the naive artists from north Croatia), while turning increasingly to the medium of drawing. Detailed winter scenes prevail in his early works. In the 1970s, he turned towards allegory, symbolism and the fantastic. The atmosphere of his paintings is lyrical and surreal.…Citește mai mult

Apolon Virtual Gallery An essay on his work in Croatian

IMDb Masters, Christopher (6 September 2004). "Obituary: Ivan Lackovic Croata: Croatian artist inspired by love of his country". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.