Marin Studin
Born 1895
Died 1960
Active: 1912 - 1960
Country of birth and death: Croatia
Sculptor
Born at Kastela, near Split in Croatia. Studied at Spalato, the Academy of Art, Zagreb, and from 1912-14 at the Munich Academy and in Vienna. Made many statues in wood for churches in Dalmatia. First one-man exhibition in Zagreb 1919. Continued his studies in Paris 1921-2 under Bourdelle, who chose him in 1923 to collaborate on some monuments; also travelled to Berlin, Prague, London and Rome. On his return to Yugoslavia, held several exhibitions and worked with Mestrovic, whose sister he married in 1929. Appointed professor at the Academy of Art, Belgrade, 1939. During the war, worked for the Resistance movement. Professor at Belgrade 1945-9, then at the Academy of Art, Zagreb. Died in Split.
(see Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.711)
Works
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Seated Figure
1941 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / Manchester City Art Gallery), 1942
'Seated Figure'
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / National Museum of Wales), 1942
October 1942
Sources
The Art of Carved Sculpture: Central and Northern Europe
1931
pp. 135-7
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists, 1942
1942
Cat. No. 196, p. 13
Citing this record
'Marin Studin', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib1_1205921944, accessed 12 Oct 2026]
