Marino Tartaglia

Marino Tartaglia
Marino Tartaglia
	SFR Yugoslavia; (today's Croatia)
Nationality	Croatian
Known for	Oil painting
Movement	Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, futurism

Marino Tartaglia (3 August 1894 – 21 April 1984) was a

Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb

.

From 1948 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in the arts in 1964.^[1]

Biography

Marino Tartaglia was born 3 August 1894 in Zagreb. He completed elementary school and the Royal High School in

First World War, fearing political persecution, he left for Italy,^[2] first to Florence, then to Rome

, where in 1913 he enrolled in the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti.

He spent a brief time as a volunteer on the

Salonika front,^[2] but quickly returned to Rome where he worked an assistant to Ivan Meštrović, then returned to Florence where he got to know the Futurist artists Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico

and others.

Following the war, he spent time in Split (1918–1921), then travelled to Vienna, Belgrade, and Paris. Returning to Zagreb in 1931, at the request of Vladimir Becić,^[3] Tartaglia started work as a trainee teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a lecturer in 1940, associate professor in 1944, and full professor in 1947.^[2] He trained several generations of Croatian painters.

From 1948 he was a full member of the

Art Pavilion in Zagreb

.

Marino Tartaglia died 21 April 1984 in Zagreb.^[2]

Legacy

In his early works, Tartaglia showed the influence of

Cézanne and the post-Impressionists, while later works the flat colourful masses become almost completely abstract – verging on figurative. Tartaglia was especially impressive in his series of self-portraits which showed signs of expressionism from 1917, and were completely abstract by the 1960s. His work was spontaneous, with a connection to primitive art, such as that of ancient cave paintings.^[4]

Works

Expressionist style painting
Self-portrait, 1920
Marjan Through the Olive (Marjan kroz masline) 1920
Still Life with Statue II (Mrtva priroda s kipom II), 1921
Combing (Češljanje), 1924
Still Life with fruits and basket, 1926^[5]
Small Breakwater (Mali lukobran), 1927
Landscape (Pejsaž), 1928
Portrait of Mrs Fink I (Portret gđe Fink I), 1935
My Wife (Moja žena), 1936
Painter (Slikar), 1966 ^[6]
Flowers I (Cvijeće I), 1966

Exhibitions

Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, Tartaglia held 30 solo exhibitions and over 270 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He participated in the Venice Biennale of 1940.^[7]

Solo shows

Selected recent solo exhibitions include^[8]

2009 Marino Tartaglia – Gallery Adris, Rovinj^[4]
2004 Marino Tartaglia : Retrospektivna izložba – Galerija Umjetnina Split, Split
2003 Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb
1975/6 Retrospective Exhibition at the
Art Pavilion in Zagreb
1971 Marino Tartaglia – Gallery of Fine Arts, Split
1964 Marino Tartaglia – Gallery of Fine Arts, Split

Group shows

Selected recent group exhibitions include^[8]

2008 From the holdings of the museum – Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
2007 Iz fundusa galerije – Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
2006 Croatian Collection – Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje

Public collections

His work can be found in the following public collections^[8]

Croatia

Gallery of Fine Arts, Split (Galerija Umjetnina) Split
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti)^[9]
Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
Muzej Moslavine, Kutina

Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

Serbia

Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade^[6]

Slovenia

Modern Gallery (Moderna Galerija), Ljubljana

References

^ Nagrada Vladimir Nazor 1959. – 2005.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Marino Tartaglia biography" (in Croatian). Galerija Divila. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ Ive Šimat Banov. "Slikar koji je iz oaze prebjegao u pustinju" [A Painter who has escaped from an oasis to the desert]. Matica hrvatska. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Marino Tartaglia u galeriji Adris" [Marino Tartaglia at the Gallery Adris] (in Croatian). Culturenet. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ "Marino Tartaglia:"Still Life with fruits and basket", 1926". CROATIAN MODERN PAINTING. Croatian Post, Inc. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Marino Tartaglia (Zagreb, 1894–1984) Slikar, 1966". Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ "Croatian Artists at Venice Biennales". Culturenet Croatia. Retrieved 23 March 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c "Marino Tartaglia, Marino Tartaglja 1894–1984, HR". Artfacts.net. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
^ "Collection". Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Retrieved 23 March 2011. artworks... which are important for an understanding of the 20th-century history of painting in Croatia... the most significant paintings from the pre-war period are certainly Pafama by Josip Seissel and Self-Portrait by Marino Tartaglia.