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Ivan Mestrovic (Croatian 1883-1962)3

The famed sculptor was born in 1883 and died in 1962. He is renowned as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. He was the first living person to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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Ivan Mestrovic (Croatian 1883-1962)3

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  1. Ivan Mestrovic 3 (Croatian, 1883 – 1962) 

  2. The famed sculptor was born in 1883 and died in 1962. The Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was one of the most important sculptors of his generation. He was the first living artist to have a one-man show at both the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1915 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1948. Mestrovic was born in the small town of Otavice, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was a stone mason and the young Ivan began an apprenticeship in a Split masonry workshop before leaving for Vienna and its Academy of Fine Arts in 1901. There Mestrovic took part in the exhibitions of the Vienna Seccession where his talents were first recognised. Mestrovic's dream of a Yugoslavia united and strengthened against outside forces, was shattered in 1941 when Germany invaded. In the following years the artist resisted both Fascism and Communism and is remembered as a hero of Croatian nationalism. He was imprisoned in Croatia from 1941-43 after refusing the post of Chancellor at his old school - the Academy of Fine Arts in Nazi-occupied Vienna. He left Croatia in 1943 and lived briefly in Switzerland before emigrating to New York State to take up the chair of sculpture created for him at Syracuse University. He never again lived in Croatia as he refused to live under Communism. However, in accordance with his wishes, he was buried in the The Most Holy Redeemer church he had built in Otavice. Moreover, he bequeathed his homes and studios in Zagreb and Split as well the chapel in Otavice to the Croatian people, together with the majority of his sculpture. The bequest now forms the Ivan Mestrovic Museums in Croatia Miguel Sopó (1918-2014) Bust of sculptor Ivan Mestrovic (clay) 1949

  3. Notre Dame Christ and the Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well, 1957 There are two Mestrovic museums in the USA, at Notre Dame, Indiana and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LASM).There is a large collection of his art at Syracuse University as well as monuments in Chicago, Washington DC, New York, The Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, St. Augustine and Miami, Florida, Buffalo, Hawaii etc. Notre Dame Last self-portrait 1961

  4. At the grand Notre Dame Seminary on Carrolton Ave. in New Orleans

  5. Christ and the Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well by Ivan Mestrovic, 1957 - University of Notre Dame USA

  6. Christ and the Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well by Ivan Mestrovic, 1957

  7. Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart Pieta 1942-46

  8. Mestrovic had begun the work in 1941 when imprisoned in Zagreb, Croatia, for refusing to cooperate with the fascist Croats, Italians and Germans who had taken control of his country. Five months later the Vatican negotiated his release and provided sanctuary for him and his family in Rome, where he completed two versions of the Pieta - this one in marble, the other in bronze (Vatican Museums) taking inspiration from Michelangelo’s Pieta, 1545 (Cathedral, Florence) In 1955 it was brought to South Bend from New York City, having been on exhibit since 1947 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first one-man exhibition ever given to a living artist

  9. Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart Pieta 1942-46

  10. Notre Dame Saint John the Evangelist, 1950 sculpture in front of O'Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame St.Luke 1950

  11. St.Luke 1950

  12. Notre Dame Moses 1950

  13. Notre Dame Madonna and Child 1948-49 Notre Dame Return of the prodigal son 1954

  14. Notre Dame Young Christ teaching in the temple 1950s Notre Dame Madonna 1917

  15. Notre Dame Ashbaugh Madonna 1917

  16. Notre Dame Christ on the Cross 1948-49

  17. Notre Dame Young Christ teaching in the temple 1950s Notre Dame Meditation 1947-50

  18. Notre Dame - Wood carvings of life & death of Jesus The last supper 1957

  19. Notre Dame Portrait of Basil A. Moreau1950 Notre Dame Mother 1926

  20. The hands of the mother (Marta Mestrovic)1908

  21. Notre Dame Self-portrait 1911 Notre Dame self-portrait plaster 1924

  22. Notre Dame Persephone and Dionysius 1945-46 Syracuse University Art collection Tired Bard

  23. Socrate Jennmaur Gallery USA Provenance: The Estate of the writer Clement Stone Oaks Manor, Lake forest Chicago, gift from Ivan Mestrovic while he was teaching at Notre Dame University

  24. Socrate

  25. Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts  of the University of Zagreb   Syracuse University Art Collection Portrait of a Lady

  26. Head of Moses Temple-Tifereth Israel Beachwood, Ohio

  27. Head of Moses Temple-Tifereth Israel Beachwood, Ohio

  28. Supplicant Persephone, 1945 Syracuse University Art Collection

  29. Supplicant Persephone, 1945

  30. Study St Jerome 1945 Syracuse University Art Collection Ascension 1921 Syracuse University Art Collection

  31. Under the cross 1941 Syracuse University Art Collection

  32. Virgin and Child with St John 1953 Syracuse University Art Collection Five women playing instruments 1947 Syracuse University Art Collection

  33. Archangel Gabriel 1926 Syracuse University Art Collection Peace study 1950 Syracuse University Art Collection

  34. Job Syracuse University Art Collection ‘Job’ tells the story of a man tested by God. Stripped of his house, land and family by God, Job maintained his faith.

  35. Syracuse, NY. Job by Ivan Mestrovic (1945) in the Shaffer Sculpture Court outside of Bowne Hall. 

  36. Job, 1945 Syracuse University Art Collection Madonna and Child 1928 Syracuse University Art Collection An inscription at Job’s feet reads ‘Have pity on me, o ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me.’

  37. Syracuse University Art Collection

  38. In 2012 as part of the festival «Croatie, la voici», the Musée Rodin presented a group of works by Ivan Meštrović (1883-1962), one of the most important 20th-century Croatian sculptors, and a great admirer of Auguste Rodin Supplicant Persephone, 1945 Job, 1945

  39. Job, 1945

  40. Galerija Meštrović (Split) Musée Rodin

  41. Supplicant Persephone, 1945

  42. Isis and Horus 1947 Syracuse University Art Collection

  43. Mary Magdalene under the Cross 1941 Self-portrait, 1947 Syracuse University Art Collection

  44. Magdalene under the Cross 1926 Syracuse University Art Collection  Magdalene Under the Cross, 1918, plaster Gliptoteka Zagreb

  45. Moses 1952 Syracuse University Art Collection Moses (cast 1990)

  46. Moses (1952; cast 1990) Syracuse University Art Collection Ivan Mestrovic was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for sculpture in 1953

  47. Růžena Zátková (Czech artist) Praga

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