| Lina
Virant-Crncic 1879 - 1949
Education:
With Bela Csikos Sessia and Menci Cl. Crncic, (Zagreb, 1903-
1907)
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, 1907- 1910.)
Biography: Lovers of painting in Croatia know her primarily
as the wife of the most famous painters of marinas and (together
with Csikos) the first Professor of the Provisional College
of Arts and Crafts who married his student Lina Virant in
1910. Like some other women painters, she acquired the initial
artistic education at the Teacher training convent college
in Zagreb and in the Crafts school in Zagreb with Josip
Bauer, master of decorative painting. In 1907, she joined
the newly established Provisional College. If some of the
women painters born in the 19th century were known for being
– apart from painting – life companions, good wives and
good mothers, then Lina is certainly an example. Together
with this, she was very religious, honest and loyal in every
respect. And as the "senior of Croatian women artists"
(as she was often labelled in the press of that time), she
was – in the eyes of the public and the Government – the
most suitable person to become chairwoman of the Women Artists'
Club when it was established in 1927 (although everybody
was aware of the prevailing merit of the rebellious Nasta
Rojc, who was unsuitable as a chairwoman due to her extravagant
way of life). Although she mostly painted oil on canvas,
Lina Virant Crncic painted in different techniques used
by artists of applied art. She illustrated books, especially
stories for children, and was famous for her painting of
craftsmen's standards, and as a painter and designer of
church vestments. She was also known for her altar paintings
for which she was commissioned by the Zagreb archbishop
Dr Antun Bauer (e.g. for the seminary church on Šalata,
Zagreb, in 1933).
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