artists
edo murtic
biography
Velika Pisanica 1921 - Zagreb 2004
He has been one of the most important Croatian artist of the second post-war period and one of the masters of European Abstraction of the 60s and 70s.
Born in Velika Pisanica, in 1921, Murtic lived in New York in the last years of the 40s. The contact with the American school of Pollock, Kline and DE Kooning had a great influence on his conversion to Abstractism, an artistic season which he followed until the last years of the 70s, characterising his art with a sign of great power and an aggressive use of the colours. His subsequent return to landscapes has been a very natural development, an evolution documented majestically in Michael Gibson's great monograph.
His works are present in the public collections of the world's most important museums: from the Tate Gallery in London to the museum of Modern Art in New York, from the Museè d'Art Moderne in Paris to the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, from the Narodni Galerie in Prague to Kunsthaus in Zurich, not to mention the museums in Boston, Houston, Seul and Wien and in Italy Genova, Torino and Brescia. Murtic has participated in the Biennial Exhibition in Venice in 1958 and in 1964, in Documenta Kassel in 1958, in the Tokyo Biennial Exhibition in 1953 and in 1965, in the Biennial Exhibition in San Paulo in Brasil in 1967.
Anthologic exhibitions of his works have been set up at Zurich's Kunsthalle in 1965, at Milan's Palazzo Reale in 1971, at Zagreb's Museum of Arts and Crafts in 1990 and Ohio's Kennedy Museum of American Art in 1994.
Edo Murtic died in Zagreb on January 2, 2005.
selected one man show
2010: War, Art Pavillion, Zagreb
2004:
Palazzo Zuccato, Porec, Istra.
2003:
Civica Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone.
2002:
Museu d'Art Contemporani d'Eivissa, Islas Baleares.
2001:
Galerjia Moderna, Zagreb.
2000:
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste.
1999:
Galeria Le Lys, Paris.
1998:
Galeria Moderna, Dubrovnik.
1997:
Galeria de l'Assemblea Municipale Kunkera, Novaljia |
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste.
1995:
Galerija Kula, Split.
1994:
Galeria Kennedy, Atens, Ohio |
Gallery Cobra, San Francisco |
Galleria d'Arte Santi, Jakarta |
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste.
1993:
Fine Arts Pavillion, Opatija |
Galerija Forum, Zagreb.
1992:
Fidesarte, Mestre |
Galerie Würtzer, Houston.
1991:
Galerie Hermanns, Munich |
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste |
Galleria Kara, Genova.
1990:
Contemporary Art Museum, Zagreb.
1989:
Gallery Duson, Seul.
1988:
Modern Art Gallery, Ljubljana.
1987:
Modern Art Gallery, Titograd.
1986:
Modern Art Gallery, Rijeka |
Galerie Feldmann, Bern.
1985:
Galleria Agla, Firenze.
1981:
Internacional Arte Gallery, Paris |
Fine Art Pavillion, Zagreb |
Art Chicago, Chicago |
Modern Art Gallery, Ljubljana.
1979:
Modern Art Gallery, Maribor.
1978:
Galerija Forum, Zagreb.
1977:
Galleria 4M, Firenze.
1976:
National Museum, Beograd |
Contemporary Art Hall, Beograd |
Galleria del Pontaccio, Milano.
1975:
Galleria del Pontaccio, Milano |
Galleria Bergamini, Milano.
1972:
Galleria Pace, Milano |
Galleria Pace 2, Torino |
Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago.
1971:
Palazzo Reale, Milano.
1966:
Modern Art Gallery, Rijeka |
Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne.
1965:
Osborn Gallery, New York |
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich |
Contemporary Art Pavillion, Düsseldorf .
1964:
Modern Art Museum, Skoplje |
Contemporary Art Museum, Beograd.
1963:
Raymond Creuze, Paris |
Galleria Bergamini, Milano.
1962:
Contemporary Art Museum, Zagreb.
1960:
Galleria La Medusa, Roma |
Petita Galerija, Ljubljana.
1957:
Galerie Würthle, Wien.
1956:
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma.
1955:
Fine Art Palace, Brussels.
1952:
Pittsbourgh / Los Angeles / New York.
1946:
Umelecka Beseda, Praga.
selected art fair and group show
2004
ARCO 04, Galleria Torbandena, Madrid
2003
ARCO 03, Galleria Torbandena, Madrid
2002
ARCO 02, Galleria Torbandena, Madrid
1999
Biennale di Pittura, Zagreb
Biennale di Pittura, Ljubljana
ARCO 99, Galleria Torbandena, Madrid
1995
Naturalismo ed astrazione, Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste
1994
Many Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
1993
XX Internacional Biennal of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
1990
Art Basel, Basel
1988
Triennal of Modern Art, Beograd
1986
New tendencies in contemporary art, Sarajevo
1981
Centre Pompidou, Paris
FIAC, Paris
1980
International Art Gallery, Paris
1976
Pintura Contemporanea Croata, Mexico City
1975
IX Internacional Biennal, Kyoto
1971
Yugoslavian Painting, Gran Palace, Paris
1970
VI exposition of Yugoslavian Painting, Zagreb
1967
Internacional Biennal, Sao Paulo
International exposition of Abstract Painting, Pittsbourgh
1965
III Biennal of Tokyo, Tokyo
1964
XXXII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
1963
XIII Premio Lissone, Lissone
1962
Arte Contemporanea Yugoslava, Roma
25 artisti contemporanei yugoslavi, Venezia
1961
Contemporary Yugoslavian Painting and Sculpture, Brighton
Contemporary Yugoslavian Painting and Sculpture, Coventry
I Biennal of Fine Arts, Beograd
1960
New Yugoslavian Painting, Boston
Colletiva di artisti yugoslavi, Milano
1958
Documenta Kassel
XXIX Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
1957
Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
public collections
Tate Gallery, London
Modern Art Museum, New York
Modern Art Museum, Boston
Modern Art Museum, Los Angeles
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Museo d'arte contemporanea di Genova
Museo d'arte contemporanea di Torino
Modern Art Museum, Seul
National Gallery, Berlin
Modern Art Gallery, Osijek
Historian Museum of Croatia, Zagreb
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Modern Art Gallery, Zagreb
Modern Art Gallery, Rijeka
Metropolitan Contemporay Art Gallery, Zagreb
Contemporary Art Museum, Beograd
XX Century Museum, Beograd