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Ivan Mestrovic (Croatian 1883-1962)5

The famed sculptor was born in 1883 and died in 1962. He is renowned as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. He was the first living person to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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Ivan Mestrovic (Croatian 1883-1962)5

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  1. Ivan Mestrovic 5 (Croatian, 1883 – 1962) 

  2. Ivan Mestrovic Ivan Mestrovic was born in Vrpolje in 1883. After apprenticeship in the stonemason’s workshop of Harold Bilinic in Split, in 1901 he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts where he stayed until 1906. Exhibiting with the artists from the Viennese Secession group he acquired affirmation already during his studies. Since 1908 he worked in Paris in his studio, where he produced a considerable part of the grandly conceived architectural and sculptural piece, Vidovdan Temple. These works were repeatedly exhibited and got the highest award at the World Exhibition in Rome in 1911, where they won the first prize for sculpture. Ivan Mestrovic stayed for four years in Rome studying sculpture of antiquity. He was totally infatuated with Michelangelo, whom he considered the greatest sculptor of all time. During World War I he exhibited in England in 1915, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mestrovic's dream of a Yugoslavia united and strengthened against outside forces, was shattered in 1941 when Germany invaded. In the following years the artist resisted both Fascism and Communism and is remembered as a hero of Croatian nationalism. After the Second World War, Ivan Mestrovic left for the United States. Since 1946 he worked as a professor at Syracuse University and later became a professor at the University of Notre Dame. He died in South Bend, Indiana, in 1962. He never again lived in Croatia as he refused to live under Communism. However, in accordance with his wishes, he was buried in the The Most Holy Redeemer church he had built in Otavice. Moreover, he bequeathed his homes and studios in Zagreb and Split as well the chapel in Otavice to the Croatian people, together with the majority of his sculpture. The bequest now forms the Ivan Mestrovic Museums in Croatia

  3. Meštrović’s Crikvine Kaštilac is a beautiful seaside estate on the southern slopes of Marjan Hill in Split. Meštrović bought the estate with his brother and remodeled it creating an impressive architectural in an idyllic environment

  4. The name Crikvine (churches in Croatian) originates from the sculptors belief that the estate was built on the remains of old churches

  5. The religious complex Crikvine-Kaštilac in Split is part of the bequest he left to his homeland

  6. The Meštrović's Crikvine - Kaštilac, a 16th-century summer house bought by Meštrović in 1939 and converted into a chapel. Job

  7. Inside lies what is arguably the artist's most stunning creation, a cycle of 28 wooden reliefs based on the life of Christ

  8. The main exhibition space, the Church of the Holy Cross in the western part of the complex, displays the works done in wood

  9. The carvings were done between 1917 and 1954, and like his home, were made a gift to the Croatian people

  10. Racic mausoleum in Cavtat

  11. Racic mausoleum in Cavtat

  12. The mausoleum of the well-known ship-owners family Račić from Cavtat was built on St. Rock's cemetery. Its construction took place in 1921, on the place of St. Rock's church from 15th century, following the will of the testatrix Marija Račić

  13. The mausoleum was built from the white stone from Brač in the form of cupola. In the whole building no other material but stone was used, except bronze for the door, the bell and the Angel.

  14. On the bell founded by Meštrović's design we find his beautiful reflection: "Comprehend the secret of love, you will solve the secret of death and believe that the life is eternal”

  15. The bronze door has relieves of the four Saints: Rocco & Sava and Cyril & Method. Inscriptions in old Glagolitsa alphabet (similar to the Cyrillic one) surround each of the saints in rectangular fields

  16. For this Mausoleum in 1925 Meštrović was given Grand Prix of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et IndustrielsModernes Paris (there were 15,000 Exhibitors)

  17. Everybody had abandoned St. Rocco except for a dog - superbly sculptured - leaning to him devotedly attached

  18. The whole mausoleum is full of symbolic representing three basic stages of human fate: birth, life and death Carved relief of Marija

  19. All of Racic's foursome family had died within a short interval of time: father Ivo (a merchant), mother Mare, daughter Marija and son Eddy

  20. The Soul of the Deceased

  21. The Eagle one of the symbols of four evangelists on the floor

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