Josip Račić

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Josip Račić

Josip Račić (born March 22, 1885 in Horvatini near Zagreb , † June 19, 1908 in Paris ) was a Croatian painter .

Life

Artistic beginnings

He spent his childhood in Horvatini. In Zagreb he attended elementary school and three classes of secondary school . He then did an apprenticeship in a workshop for the lithography trade .

Studied in Munich

In 1904 he went to Munich to study painting. There he attended Anton Ažbe's private school , where he got to know the wet-on-wet technique . In the spring of 1905 he went to Berlin for a few months, where he pursued his learned profession as a lithographer and mirrored images in a lithography institute on lithographic stones . In October he returned to Munich. Since Ažbe died in August, he enrolled at the Munich Royal Art Academy . He took the drawing class of Professor Johann Caspar Herterich . After his death he stayed in the class and became a pupil of Hugo von Habermann . Račić belonged to the group of students called the “Croatian School” at the academy.

Josip Račić , “Tables in a Parisian Café” , 1908

Paris, 1908

Račić's painting was judged for the period from 1905 to 1908 that it was “determined by Munich's visual culture.” “ Leibl's influences and his circle” played a decisive role. All the more astonishing is the spontaneous change in style that has taken place in his painting since his arrival in Paris in early February 1908 . It was not only in Munich and Murnau that the idea of ​​the Pont-Aven school of stretching colored surfaces in contours around 1908 set the stage for Expressionism . The works of some Ažbe students prove that the development of art in Paris east of Munich was also closely observed and viewed as a further development. Račić z. B. justified his decision to go to Paris with the realization that there was nothing more to learn in Munich, because “the French are ahead of all peoples in painting.” This remark is of particular interest because at the same time it was quite outstanding Representatives of French cloisonism were in Munich, namely the two Gauguin students and Nabis Jan Verkade and Paul Sérusier , as well as Gauguin's close Polish painter friend Władysław Ślewiński . In 1908 he wrote informative things about the state of Munich painting from his friend, the Irish Gauguin student Roderic O'Conor . Astonishingly, his view coincides with that of Račić: “We are currently in Munich and will stay for some time. The atmosphere is not very pleasant, there are only splashes of paint and beer. The splotches of paint are appalling, but the beer is excellent. The artistic level is so low that you don't feel like going to an exhibition at all. ”When Račić arrived in Paris on February 12, 1908, he seems to have turned to cloisonism quite spontaneously. However, there were no bright, colorful pictures. By nature he was prone to depression and lived constantly in poverty, which, despite all the modernity, probably explains the sadness of his pictures in black and brown tones. B. in his picture "Tables in a Parisian Café" from 1908. On June 20, 1908 he was found shot in his hotel room at 48 rue Abé Gregoire .

literature

  • Miroslav Krieža, 0 smrti slikara Josipa Račića. Književnik, Zagreb, I / 1928, št. 8, 273-281
  • Ljubo Babić, Josip Račić (1885–1905). Hrvatska revija, Zagreb, III, 1930, št. 1, 33-37
  • Marcel Gorenc, Zapis o slikaru Račiću. Zivot umjetnosti, Zagreb, III / 1969, št. 9, 131-145
  • Jelena Uskoković, 0 nekim aspektima Račićevog mogućeg likovnog iskustva u Münchenu. Bulletin Razreda za likovne umjetnosti Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb 1986, št. 1 (57), 39-59

Individual evidence

  1. JU, Račić, Josip, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 126
  2. Bernd Fäthke, Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, p. 20, fig. 23
  3. Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, p. 47 f
  4. JU, Račić, Josip, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 126
  5. JU, Račić, Josip, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 126
  6. Matko Peic, Josip Racic, Zagreb 1985, p 127
  7. Wladislawa Jaworska, Paul Gauguin et l'école de Pont-Aven, Neuchâtel 1971, p. 119 f
  8. Bernd Fäthke, In the Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, fig. 23
  9. JU, Račić, Josip, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 126