Marino Tartaglia | |
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| Born | 3 August 1894 |
| Died | 21 April 1984 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Known for | Oil painting |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, futurism |
Marino Tartaglia (3 August 1894 – 21 April 1984) was a Croatian painter and art teacher, for many years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb.
From 1948 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in the arts in 1964.[1]
Marino Tartaglia was born 3 August 1894 in Zagreb. He completed elementary school and the Royal High School in Split. In 1907 he encountered Emanuel Vidović, and became interested in painting.[2] He studied drawing with Virgil Meneghello Dinčić. He enrolled in the Architectural School ( Građevna stručna škola) in Zagreb (1908–1912) where among his teachers were well-known painters: Oton Iveković, Ivan Tišov, Robert Frangeš Mihanović and Bela Čikoš Sesija. In the turbulent times before the First World War, fearing political persecution, he left for Italy,[2] first to Florence, then to Rome, where in 1913 he enrolled in the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti.
He spent a brief time as a volunteer on the Salonika front,[2] but quickly returned to Rome where he worked an assistant to Ivan Meštrović, then returned to Florence where he got to know the Futurist artists Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico and others.
Following the war, he spent time in Split (1918–1921), then travelled to Vienna, Belgrade, and Paris. Returning to Zagreb in 1931, at the request of Vladimir Becić,[3] Tartaglia started work as a trainee teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a lecturer in 1940, associate professor in 1944, and full professor in 1947.[2] He trained several generations of Croatian painters.
From 1948 he was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1964, he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Lifetime Achievement in the arts. In 1975, he held a retrospective exhibition at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb.
Marino Tartaglia died 21 April 1984 in Zagreb.[2]
In his early works, Tartaglia showed the influence of Cézanne and the post-Impressionists, while later works the flat colourful masses become almost completely abstract – verging on figurative. Tartaglia was especially impressive in his series of self-portraits which showed signs of expressionism from 1917, and were completely abstract by the 1960s. His work was spontaneous, with a connection to primitive art, such as that of ancient cave paintings.[4]
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, Tartaglia held 30 solo exhibitions and over 270 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He participated in the Venice Biennale of 1940.[7]
Selected recent solo exhibitions include[8]
Selected recent group exhibitions include[8]
His work can be found in the following public collections[8]
Croatia
Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.)
Serbia
Slovenia
