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The Croatian sculptor and medallist Ante ORLIĆ (b. Sali, Dugi otok island, Dalmatia, 6 February 1933) passed away in Zagreb on 4 May 2004. His funeral took place at the Zagreb central cemetery Mirogoj on 7 May 2004 and the Requiem was read in the Zagreb Cathedral on the same day. He went to grammar school in Zadar and from 1953 studied scuplture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with Frano Kršinić, graduating in 1958, and later (1959-1964) specialized in Vanja Radauš's studio. His colleagues are Maja Ujević, Sime Vulas, Ante Starčević and Stipe Sikirica: the two mentioned last are also medallists. His whole life Orlić spent as a free-lance artist, therefore he was, still under the communist regime, entirely free to model many religious sculptures and medals. Thus for instance he made the Calvary sculptures for the Zagreb Cathedral (in the southern aisle) and viae crucis for several other churches or in the free, as at the Croatian National Shrine of Marija Bistrica. Early in his career he did many potraits and figures and even sculptures of animals. He joined the Croatian Society of Fine Arts in 1961. There are around 60 of his public sculptures. He exhibited at 17 solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (for instance in Vienna) and took part at cca 90 other exhibitions, among which at the first Ivo Kerdić Memorial in Osijek, Zagreb and Berlin (1980, 1981). Ante Orlić's medallic oeuvre is relatively small and is chiefly concentrated on religious themes: Our Lady of Sali (1981), the Eucharist Congress in Zadar and neighbouring places (1983). There are also portraits of various bishops (Josip Pavlišić, Archbishop of Rijeka, a medal struck on the occasion of his golden jubilee, 1988/89 ; Antun Mahnič, Bishop of Krk, 50 years from his death, 1970). Orlić also made the prize medal for Stubica Community (1974) and there are also several portraits of the artist's daughter Laura (1978). Ante Orlić's wife is Alma née Drvodelić, one of the leading Croatian restorers of paintings, who for many years worked at the Institute of Restauration of the Southern Slavic Academy of Science and Arts and then at the Arts and Crafts Museum in Zagreb, from where she retired a few years ago.

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