Frano Krsinic
Other names: Franco Krsinic
Born 1897
Died 1981
Active: 1930
Country of birth and death: Croatia
Sculptor, stone mason
Born in Lumbarda, island of Korcula, Dalmatia. Family were quarrymen and stonemasons. Trained as a stonemason to 1912, then at the College of Arts and Crafts, Horice and Prague Academy of Arts. Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Created state master craftsman in 1948 and given charge of a master craftsman workshop. Lived in Zagreb.
Works
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Torso
1930 (Presumed)
£55
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
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
Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists
1981
p. 402 http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1442&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio (accessed 15 January 2010)
The Art of Carved Sculpture: Central and Northern Europe
1931
p. 131
Citing this record
'Frano Krsinic', 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_1205845940, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
