| Anka
Krizmanic 10.03.1896 - 02.11.1987
Education:
With porcelain painter Hans Schmirler (in Zagreb, from 1903.)
Private school of Tomislav Krizman ( Zagreb, 1910-1913)
Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden (1913-1917). A French Government
scholarship provided for her study in Paris, 1929-1930.
Biography: The romantic/dramatic episode which determined
the life of Anka Krizmanic had already started before her
birth, with a great scandal which her mother caused to the
family. She was a Gušic, a member of the ancient Croatian
nobility, and she eloped with a village schoolmaster Josip
Sivoš, whom she married, much to her family's dismay. Her
two daughters, the future painter Anka, and the younger,
Jelka, bore the surname of Sivoš. When Anka was five, her
father died. Her mother's family then took mercy on the
widow with two small children, but only on condition that
the "commoner" Hungarian surname of Sivoš be replaced
by the surname of one of her noble ancestors. Thus Anka
Sivoš became Anka Krizmanic. Her talent was identified very
early by her tutor F. de Žigrovic Pretocki who took care
that she was given a professional arts teacher when she
was seven. She developed into an outstanding Croatian painter
and graphic artist, creating an opus of over 6,000 registered
works. She made drawings for the Institute of Anatomy and
Biology, Zagreb University School of Medicine (1931-1939,
and 1946-1951).
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