| Anka
Bestall 21.11.1861 - 16.04.1946
Education:
With Vlaho Bukovac.
Teacher training convent college in Zagreb, 1883-1892. Painting
and ceramic courses at the Crafts school with N. Mašic.
Akademie der bildenden Kunste in Munich, 1900-1906.
Biography: She first taught drawing at the Crafts school,
and from 5.09.1908 at the Girls' College where she distinguished
herself as a Fine Arts teacher until she retired. One of
her students was the well known painter Anka Krizmanic.
At her first exhibition in 1900 she was noted as the "first
Croatian painter coming from the Croatian school".
She was awarded a gold medal for her graphic work in Leipzig,
in 1914
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