EDO MURTIC

He is 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.

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SELECTED ONE-MAN SHOWS

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 FAIRS & GROUP SHOWS

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