Ivan Mestrovic

Born 15 August 1883
Died 16 January 1962

Active: 1906 - 1962

Country of birth: Croatia

Country of death: United States

Sculptor

Born in Vrpolje, Croatia. Died in South Bend, Indiana. Trained in Split and at the Art Academy in Vienna. He travelled and exhibited widely in Europe before and during the First World War, including Paris, Belgrade, Rome, London and Switzerland. In the summer of 1915, the Victoria and Albert Museum held a large exhibition of his works which was one of their most successful exhibitions to date. There followed a number of other solo or group exhibitions in Britian with fellow Croatian sculptors. In 1919 a monograph edited by Milan Ćurčin was published in London further establishing his reputation. After 1930 the number of exhibitions of Mestrovic's work in Britain declined. He was invited to take up a chair at Syracuse University in 1946 and this led to a permanent move to the United States.

Citing this record

'Ivan Mestrovic', 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=msib6_1246289152, accessed 05 Jun 2023]