Celestin Mato Medović

Celestin Mato Medović (born November 17, 1857 in Kuna on Pelješac , Dalmatia , † January 20, 1920 in Sarajevo ) was a Croatian painter.

Life

Celestin Mato Medović received his school education from the Franciscans in the Franciscan monastery Kuna , which is near his birthplace Kuna on the Pelješac peninsula . He kicked at a young age in 1868 in the Franciscan religious orders and was in the Franciscan monastery in Dubrovnik friar . There he took the religious vows and decided on the religious name "Celestin". Medović's artistic talent was noticed in the monastery. In 1880 he was sent to Rome for further training and received accommodation in the monastery of Sant'Isidoro ( Nazarenes ). There Lodovic Seitz became his first art teacher. His second instructor was Giuseppe Grandi . In 1883 he came to Florence to attend the private art school of Antonio Ciseria .

In Italy , Celestin Mato Medović artistically designed some Franciscan monasteries, including in Fuccechio , Faenza and Cesena . In 1886 he was sent back to his home monastery in Dubrovnik by his Franciscan Guardian in Italy. Supported and encouraged by Dubrovnik intellectuals and the Venetian artist Emil Jacob Schindler , Celestin Mato Medović continued his artistic training at the Art Academy in Munich . There he was inspired by the artistic work of Karl Piloty . He returned briefly to Dubrovnik in 1893 and soon afterwards in 1895 joined the Croatian artist group around Vlaho Bukovac in Zagreb. From 1905 to 1907 he was artistically active in the design of church buildings such as the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci , but also those in Požega and Nova Gradiška .

Celestin Mato Medović was a proponent of secularization . He resigned from the Franciscan order and from 1895 lived in Zagreb. From 1898 Medović had a domicile built in his native Kuna and a summer residence in Crkvice . Together with the Croatian artist Oton Iveković , he exhibited his artistic work in an art exhibition in 1901 . He stayed in Zagreb until 1907 . During this time, further art exhibitions with Croatian artists follow in Budapest , Copenhagen , Paris , Prague , Belgrade , Sofia and Zagreb. After 1908 he lived and worked in his place of birth, Kuna, and from 1912 to 1914 in Vienna . He died exhausted from a lung disease in Sarajevo in 1920 .

literature

• S. Batušić:  Medović P. Celestin (Mate). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 188.
• Zdenko Rus: Medović, Celestin Mato , in: The Dictionary of Art , ed. v. Jane Turner, Volume 21, 1996. ( ISBN 1-884446-00-0 )

Web links

Commons : Celestin Medović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography (Croatian, English)