Marino Tartaglia

Marino Tartaglia
Born(1894-08-03)3 August 1894
Zagreb, Austria-Hungary
(today's Croatia)
Died21 April 1984(1984-04-21) (aged 89)
Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
(today's Croatia)
NationalityCroatian
Known forOil painting
MovementPost-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]

Biography

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]

Legacy

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]

Works

  • Self-portrait, 1917 — Expressionist style painting
  • Self-portrait, 1920
  • Marjan Through the Olive (Marjan kroz masline) 1920
  • Still Life with Statue II (Mrtva priroda s kipom II), 1921
  • Combing (Češljanje), 1924
  • Still Life with fruits and basket, 1926[5]
  • Small Breakwater (Mali lukobran), 1927
  • Landscape (Pejsaž), 1928
  • Portrait of Mrs Fink I (Portret gđe Fink I), 1935
  • My Wife (Moja žena), 1936
  • Painter (Slikar), 1966 [6]
  • Flowers I (Cvijeće I), 1966

Exhibitions

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]

Solo shows

Selected recent solo exhibitions include[8]

Group shows

Selected recent group exhibitions include[8]

  • 2008 From the holdings of the museum – Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
  • 2007 Iz fundusa galerije – Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
  • 2006 Croatian Collection – Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje

Public collections

His work can be found in the following public collections[8]

Croatia

Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.)

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

Serbia

Slovenia

References

  1. ^ Nagrada Vladimir Nazor 1959. – 2005.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b c d e "Marino Tartaglia biography" (in Croatian). Galerija Divila. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  3. ^ Ive Šimat Banov. "Slikar koji je iz oaze prebjegao u pustinju" [A Painter who has escaped from an oasis to the desert]. Matica hrvatska. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Marino Tartaglia u galeriji Adris" [Marino Tartaglia at the Gallery Adris] (in Croatian). Culturenet. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  5. ^ "Marino Tartaglia:"Still Life with fruits and basket", 1926". CROATIAN MODERN PAINTING. Croatian Post, Inc. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Marino Tartaglia (Zagreb, 1894–1984) Slikar, 1966". Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Croatian Artists at Venice Biennales". Culturenet Croatia. Retrieved 23 March 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ a b c "Marino Tartaglia, Marino Tartaglja 1894–1984, HR". Artfacts.net. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  9. ^ "Collection". Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Retrieved 23 March 2011. artworks... which are important for an understanding of the 20th-century history of painting in Croatia... the most significant paintings from the pre-war period are certainly Pafama by Josip Seissel and Self-Portrait by Marino Tartaglia.

Bibliography

  • Tonko Maroević: Monografija, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb 2003., ISBN 953-6776-61-8
  • Igor Zidić: Marino Tartaglia (1894–1984), Moderna galerija, 2009., ISBN 978-953-559-483-3
  • Božo Bek, Mića Bašićević: Marino Tartaglia (katolog izložbe), Galerija suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb, 1967.
  • Željka Čorak, Tonko Maroević: Marino Tartaglia (katolog izložbe), Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb, 1975.
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