Naslov
Croatia. La Croatie
(Croatia)

Autori
Mirnik, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, stručni

Knjiga
Exhibition Catalog. FIDEM XIII. 3th Congress International Federation of Medallic Art. Fédération Internationale de la Médaille. September 19-22, 2007.

Urednik/ci
Da Silva, Carlos Baptista

Izdavač
American Numismatic Association

Grad
Colorado Springs (CO)

Godina
2007

Raspon stranica
41-48

ISBN
978-89637-029-6

Ključne riječi
medals, Croatia

Sažetak
CROATIA The most interesting project in recent memory the Irish-Croatian silver 15 Euro coin. Its obverse was designed by Ivan Meštrović (1883– 1962) for the Irish Free State in 1926. Nobel-Prize winner and medal jury member William Butler Yeats included Meštrović, a favourite sculptor, among the five artists invited to take part in the 1926 competition. The jury wrote to the wrong address, and Meštrović received the invitation much too late. He sent a bronze model of the obverse that featured a strong young woman in profile playing the a Celtic, aware the jury could not accept it. Meštrović’ s model was adapted for a contemporary coin by Damir Mataušić, who provided a suitable reverse. Elsewhere in Croatia a specialist postgraduate course in medal-making and small-scale sculpture began at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. The first three students enrolled in 2006 were Karlo Gross, Matej Pašalić, both trained in Zagreb ; and Luka Petrinjak, who studied in Antwerp. Gross and Pašalić have modelled works for the FIDEM exhibition in Colorado Springs . Medals were shown at several exhibitions in 2006. The representative exhibition of Velibor Mačukatin (b. 1919) at the Salon of the Antun Augustinčić Museum at Klanjec, opened on November 17. The Vukovar Town Museum in 2006 exhibited the considerable Matijaš family donation, consisting of 107 works by Branko Crlenjak (b. 1930), which included 18 plaquettes and 22 medals. There is now a permanent medal exhibition at the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts in Zagreb, presented by Vesna Mažuran Subotić, which features an excellent cross-section of the art medals. The exhibition centre at the former Jesuit College in Zagreb showed many works by the sculptor Vanja Radauš (1906-75), including his complete medallic works. Last year also saw the publication of an elegant monograph dedicated to the work of Stipe Sikirica (b. 1933) by Darko Glavan, which included medals. Recently, the Croatian State Mint released us several valuable editions, among them a medal struck for the 2006 FIFA Football World Cup in Germany in 2006, and a special issue dedicated to the 150th anniversary of inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1946), who spent many years in the United States.

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Engleski

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