Bogdan Borčić
Bogdan Borčić (born September 26, 1926 in Ljubljana , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; died April 24, 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia ) was a Slovenian painter and graphic artist.
Life
Bogdan Borčić was the son of a Slovenian mother and a Croatian father and grew up in Ljubljana. After the German conquest of Yugoslavia in 1941, he joined a resistance group when he was 15 and produced leaflets. He was arrested, put into youth arrest and on August 10, 1944, was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . There he fell ill with appendicitis and barely survived. He was then used in work details, most recently in the clothing store . He was temporarily tortured in a standing bunker. In the concentration camp, Borčić illustrated an illegal Slovenian camp newspaper. He was eventually liberated by the US Army.
From 1945 he studied painting with Gojmir Anton Kos at the Art Academy in Ljubljana and after graduating in 1950 he took lessons with Gabrijel Stupica , in 1958/59 he studied with Johnny Friedlaender in Paris. Borčić established himself as an artist and focused on graphics in particular. From 1969 to 1984 he taught at the Art Academy in Ljubljana, where he received a professorship for graphics in 1976. From 1980 he lived in Slovenj Gradec . In 1965 he received the Prešeren Prize and again in 2005 for his life's work, in 1982 the Jakopič Prize . In 2004 he returned to Dachau for the first time, where an exhibition of his pictures was organized.
literature
- M. Gabršek-Prosenc: Borčić, Bogdan . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 677 f.
- Inmate No. 91324: drawings, paintings, graphics. Catalog of the exhibited works . Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, Dachau 2004.
- Mateja Juričan; Rebeka Vidrih (mentor): 91324: Dachau v likovnem pričevanju Bogdana Borčića: diplomsko delo , Ljubljana 2015, Thesis, Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, OCLC 965923070 .
- Bogdan Borčič: Pictures / slike 1984–1993 . Art Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1993.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bogdan Borčić in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Bogdan Borčić in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Obituary Bogdan Borčić . Dachau concentration camp memorial
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borčić, Bogdan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 2014 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana |