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Mar 22, 1885 Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia Died on 19 Jun 1908 (aged 23)
Croatian painter
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About Josip Rai
- Josip Racic (22 March 1885 – 19 June 1908) was a Croatian painter in the early 20th century.
- Although he died very young (he was only 23), and his work was mostly created during his student years, he is one of the best known modern Croatian painters.
- Today, Racic is regarded as one of the most important representatives of Croatian modern painting.He studied lithography in Zagreb, and 1904 he went to Vienna and Munich, where he studied for a year at the school of the Slovene painter and teacher Anton Ažbe, followed by 3 years at the prestigious Academy of Arts.
- There, Racic, along with Oskar Herman, Vladimir Becic and Miroslav Kraljevic formed the group known as the Croatian School.
- In 1908, he went to Paris where he painted a series of watercolors and oils depicting Parisian bridges, avenues and parks.
- He died of a gunshot wound in a Paris hotel room in June 1908, having committed suicide.Josip Racic is one of the founders of modern Croatian art, the first to bring the concept of self-awareness and artistic integrity to his life and works, "pure painting", as he called it.
- A particular feature of his paintings is the strong dark realms of human spirituality.
- A retrospective of his work was held in the Modern Gallery in Zagreb and Dubrovnik in 2008-2009, to mark the 100th anniversary of the artist's death.
