Ivo Kerdic
Born 9 May 1881
Died 27 October 1953
Active: 1900 - 1953
Country of birth and death: Croatia
Medallist, sculptor
Born in Davor, died in Zagreb. He was the son of a wood merchant. Kerdic initially trained as a locksmith in Zagreb. He studied in Paris (1900) working as an engraver and then in Vienna (from 1902) working for the Gillar Bronze Foundry to support himself. In 1913 he was appointed as a Professor in the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb (known as the Jugoslav Academy of Fine art from 1919). Kerdic worked primarily as a medallist and is considered one of the leading exponents of the time.
(See 'The Medal Work of Ivo Kerdić' by
William Chauncy Langdon, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 7, No. 19 (June, 1928), pp. 171-178)
Works
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Saint Sebastian
1930 (Presumed)
£22
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
Citing this record
'Ivo Kerdic', 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_1205848753, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
