Antun Augustincic
Born 4 May 1900
Died 10 May 1979
Active: 1930 - 1973
Country of birth and death: Croatia
Sculptor
Born in Klanjec in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region in northern Croatia. In 1918 he enrolled at the Arts and Crafts College in Zagreb, where he studied sculpting under professors Rudolf Valdec and Robert Frangeš. Between 1922-4 he worked with Ivan Mestrovic and then won a scholarship to Paris where he studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs and École des Beaux-Arts.
Augustincic began exhibiting in 1926 and by 1930 had secured his first major commission. He was a founding member of the Earth Group (Croatian: Grupa Zemlja), an arts collective comprising left-wing sculptors, painters and architects. However he left this in the early 1930s before the group was banned.
Over the next forty or more years Augustincic created many monuments, architectural works and statues at home and abroad. His international works include: the Peace monument in front of the United Nations building, New York City (1954) and the statue of a Miner in front of the International Labour Organization headquarters, Geneva.
In 1970 Augustincic donated his works to his native town of Klanjec, where a gallery exhibiting his works opened in 1976. He died in Zagreb.
Works
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Sleep
1930 (Presumed)
£130
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Yugoslav Pictures and Sculpture (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea), 1930
October 1930
Exhibited at Belfast Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition of Yugoslav Paintings and Sculpture, 1931
1931
Citing this record
'Antun Augustincic', 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_1205850016, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
