Frano Kršinić

Frano Kršinić (24 July 1897 – 1 January 1982) was a Croatian sculptor active in former

Kršinić was born in 1897 in the village of

By the late 1920s his individual expression was formed, away from the mainstream of Art Deco and the overwhelming influence of Ivan Meštrović. In this period his style and sculptural elegance took shape through a number of works defined by soft lines in closed forms such as Awakening, Diana, Young Woman Tending a Rose, Reading, After the Bath and others.

In the following decades Kršinić devoted himself to works marked by finer chiseling in marble, mostly of female art nudes and motherly motifs, such as sculptures titled Meditation, Mother Feeding a Child, etc. In 1947 he was made master sculptor and head of the sculpting workshop at the

. In his last decades Krsinic created numerous small format sculptures which varied the theme of the young girl, as well as art nudes. Works such as Worry, Sunbathing and Resting are said to represent perfection in the softness of sculpting in marble. He retired from teaching in 1967 and in 1975 he stopped sculpting.

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Further reading

• "Frano Kršinić". hrt.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 26 April 2015.
• "Kršinić, Frano". Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 January 2017.

External links

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• Official website (in Croatian)
• Frano Kršinić short biography at Tate.org.uk
• Frano Kršinić biography at Korcula.net