Franjo Koloman Likar

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Franjo Koloman Likar (born January 22, 1928 in Varaždin ) is a Croatian painter.

Franjo Koloman Likar's family comes from Otlica in the Görz / Gorizia area and some of them moved to Klagenfurt (Austria) at the beginning of the 20th century . After the First World War , his father, who was an Austrian military policeman, settled in Montenegro as chief of the gendarmerie . However, the main residence remained Varzdin. Today Franjo Likar lives in Klagenfurt (where he is also a member of the Carinthian Art Association) and Brela / Croatia.

Until 1951 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo; Professor there for a short time. In 1992 the war drove him from Sarajevo to Klagenfurt.

His works are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), in the National Museum Belgrade (Serbia), in the Modern Galerija Laibach (Slovenia), in the Museum Sztuki Wspolczesney Warsaw (Poland).

Likar prefers to supplement and improve old masters, in the process - especially recently - words have been integrated into his pictures and art and kitsch motifs connected and painted over in digitized large-format collages . Likar also likes to work with textiles, which are arranged with sculptures to form relics . His work is fed by the tension between eroticism and religion, which is why whores and saints often play a shocking role in his works.

Publication: 2007: Franjo Koloman Likar, Monografija, Sarajevo