| Jelka
Tomicic Schwarz - Slavic 1887 - 1946
Education:
With Robert Auer ( Zagreb 1918-1920)
With Rudolf Marcic ( Zagreb)
Kunstschule für Frauen in Vienna.
Biography: The daughter of Petar Tomicic, a septemvir judge,
she married the rich wine merchant Hinko Schwarz of Zagreb
and Vienna, who subsequently changed his surname to Slavic.
The family claimed that she had acquired her basic artistic
education in Vienna. In Zagreb she continued her further
education in the private school of Robert Auer, as her name
was on the list of the attendants who paid the school fees
regularly. After completing the course in this popular art
school, Jelka Schwarz Slavic joined the private school of
Rudolf Marcic in Praška Street. Her enviable income enabled
her to travel widely, which is evidenced in her oil paintings
with motifs ranging from the sea to the Alps. Her residence
was a villa at 64, Jurjevska Street (near Cmrok park), where
she intensively socialised with her neighbour, the admirable
water colour painter Štefana Klaic Hribar, with whom she
exchanged paintings. She had no children, and her heirs
claimed that she "died from colours", i.e. from
poisoning when carelessly handling white-lead.
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