2011Croatian Visual Arts - Sheetlets

ANKA KRIZMANIĆ (Omilje near Zelina 1896 – Zagreb 1987) Already as a little girl Anka Krizmanić showed great interest and exceptional talent for drawing and panting. Her earliest preserved works date from 1908; two years later she will interrupt her gymnasium schooling and - as the youngest attendant – inscribe a famous painting school of Tomislav Krizman on Jelačić Square in Zagreb. Thanks to her talent and devotion, the young pupil has immediately made an excellent impression, which her teacher will also award. Actually he will include two of her drawings in Medulić exhibition opened 1910 in Art Pavilion in Zagreb. One 14-year old will thus find herself in elite fellowship of the most prominent Croatian painters and sculptors of the time as Krizman, Babić, Rački, Bukovac, Vidović, Meštrović, Rosandić and others.