Stanislav Rapotec

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Stanislav Ivan Rapotec

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(4 October 1913 – 18 November 1997) was a Slovene-Australian artist.

Early life

Stanislav Rapotec was born in 1913 in

Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 he moved with his family to Ljubljana, part of the newly created Yugoslavia. He studied economics at the University of Zagreb from 1933 to 1939.[1] After military training as a reserve officer, he began his career with the National Bank of Yugoslavia in Split where he also developed his skill as an artist.[2]

World War II

Rapotec was mobilized into the Royal Yugoslav Army before the invasion of Yugoslavia by Germany and Italy on 6 April 1941.

Chetnik resistance, also organized radio communication between Rapotec and Draža Mihailović.[4] He spent April to June of that year in Zagreb. During this time, he met with the Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac five times.[5] Later in July, he went back to the middle eastern region. He was feared lost by the allies. He has traveled from Split to Mostar to Zagreb (where he had sheltered for 2 and a half months and met surviving Jews and Serbs) to Belgrade, and finally to Turkey.[6]

Life as a painter

After the war, Rapotec moved to

Blake Prize for Religious Art. He was a member of the group of Sydney-based abstract artists called the Sydney 9
. After his wife, Andree, had died, he traveled and painted all across Europe. He died in Sydney from a stroke in 1997.

Legacy

Stan Rapotec is famous for his art works, which are all exhibited in London, Rome, Paris, and the United States. He is also known for his quote, "To become an artist, you must have a life rich with experience, a strong desire to express yourself, a will strong enough to carry out this desire, and ... talent,".[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Gelt & Eggleston-Tomažič 2010, pp. 43.
  2. ^ "Netbase2: Slovenia - view from outside".
  3. ^ Tomasevich 2001, p. 566.
  4. ISBN 978-0-88033-081-7
    . ... Mihailovic was no longer in Serbia but in Montenegro, and on the move, that it was now too risky to go and see him, but that Rapotec could communicate with him by radio through his representative in Belgrade, Major Zarko Todorovic.
  5. ^ Tomasevich 2001, p. 552.
  6. ^ The Independent
  7. ^ The Independent

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