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Ivan Mestrovic (Croatian 1883-1962)6

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)6

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  1. Ivan Mestrovic 6 (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 Gallery is located in the neighborhood of Meje in the western part of Split. The artist himself participated in the creation of this monumental piece of architecture.

  4. The villa served as home of the Meštrović family

  5. In 1952, Ivan Meštrović donated the property, along with three others, and 132 of his art works to the Republic of Croatia, making possible the founding of the Ivan Meštrović Gallery

  6. Reliefs • Girl playing the harp • Girl playing music

  7. The gallery preserves and presents to the public the most significant works of Meštrović, and is in itself an art monument

  8. The building and its grounds overlooking the Adriatic Sea were designed to fulfill three purposes: as a family home, working studio and exhibit space

  9. The Meštrović family stayed in the villa from the summer of 1932 until 1941, when Meštrović left for Zagreb

  10. The bronze sculpture Daleki Akordi or Distant Chords adorns the lawns of the Mestrovic Gallery in Split

  11. Daleki Akordi or Distant Chords is a Bronze cast ( 237×121×69 cm) of the statue of Ivan Meštrović made in 1918, in Rome. This sculpture adorns the lawns of the Mestrovic Palace or Gallery in Split

  12. In 2012 as part of the festival «Croatie, la voici», the Musée Rodin presented a group of works by Ivan Meštrović (1883-1962), one of the most important 20th-century Croatian sculptors, and a great admirer of Auguste Rodin

  13. Daleki Akordi or Distant Chords (1918 Rome) at Musée Rodin Paris

  14. Outdoor sculpture park

  15. Supplicant Persephone, 1945 bronze

  16. Persephone, according to Greek legend, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was abducted by Hades, the god of the Underworld, and forced to become his wife. Demeter, goddess of agriculture, demanded that her daughter be returned but Zeus made a bargain with Hades allowing him to keep Persephone during the autumn and winter

  17. Supplicant Persephone, 1945 bronze The myth underscores the ancient interpretation of the seasons; nature’s fruits disappear in autumn and winter but are regained in spring and summer when Persephone is returned to world of the living. Mestrovic portrays Persephone pleading for release from the underworld

  18. Cyclops (1928)

  19. Cyclops (1928)

  20. Reclining Nude

  21. Reclining Nude

  22. Reclining Nude Timor Dei

  23. Female nude

  24. Widow

  25. Woman by the sea 1926

  26. Boy with horse ( a portrait of Ivan's youngest son Mate)1936

  27. Boy with horse1936 Vlaho Bukovac (1855–1922)portrait of sculptor Ivan Meštrović

  28. The Last Supper by Ivan Mestrovic (1945, Geneve)

  29. My Mother

  30. The furniture set is made according to Ivan Meštrović's sketches and is a part of the new permanent display in the former dining room

  31. In Despair, 1927

  32. Reverie (Sanjarenje), 1927 Olga Mestrovic - 1925

  33. Musician (playing gajde)

  34. Woman playing lute

  35. Hope, 1925

  36. Girl Dancer

  37. Marija Banac Racic

  38. Portrait of the artist's wife, Ruza Klein

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