Toma Rosandic
Born 22 January 1878
Died 1 March 1958
Active: 1900 - 1958
Country of birth and death: Croatia
Sculptor, teacher
Born and died in Split, Croatia. Rosandic was the son of a stone cutter. He studied abroad and began exhibiting in Italy in 1906. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War he moved to London and had an exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in 1917. Rosandic returned to Croatia after hostilities ceased and taught at the Academy of Fine Art in Belgrade 1919-1955 where he founded the 'Master Workshops'. Rosandic created numerous monuments and statues acting as both sculptor and architect. His work is to be seen in the Toma Rosandić Memorial Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.
Works
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Figure of a Girl
1930 (Presumed)
£160
Pietà : Altarpiece from the Petrinovich Mausoleum, in Brac, Dalmatia
1930 (Presumed)
£320
Ecce Homo
1930 (Presumed)
£120
Vestal Virgin
1930 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Belfast Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition of Yugoslav Paintings and Sculpture, 1931
1931
Exhibited at Exhibition of Yugoslav Pictures and Sculpture (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea), 1930
October 1930
Sources
A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection. Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1988 Ulster Museum publication
1988
pp. 89-90
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Yugoslav Pictures and Sculptures.
1930
Catalogue of The Belfast Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition of Yugoslav Paintings and Sculpture, 1931
1931
p. 19, 20
The Art of Carved Sculpture: Central and Northern Europe
1931
pp. 59 and 123-5 (plus illustrations)
Citing this record
'Toma Rosandic', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib1_1205843408, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
