14 January 2009(2009-01-14) (aged 80)Zagreb, Croatia
Education
Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts
Du an d amonja 1928 2009
Dušan Džamonja (Macedonian: Душан Џамоња, [duʃan d͡ʒamɔɲa]; 31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a contemporary Croatian sculptor of Macedonian ancestry.
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Education and Career
1945, Džamonja began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under the professors Vanja Radauš, Frano Kršinić and Antun Augustinčić, all notable authors. In 1951, he graduated in the master class of professor Antun Augunstincic.
In 1951, he worked in the Krsinic workshop until 1953 when he started his own workshop in Zagreb.
In 1954 he held his first solo exhibition in the Salon ULUH in Zagreb.
In 1970, he began the construction of his house and workshop in Vrsar, Istria according to his own design.
Artistic Style
Džamonja draws primarily in chalk and uses the technique of washed ink; however, Džamonja leaned towards sculpture, early on. He has used many materials, from bronze and iron to wood, glass, concrete and polyester in his sculptures.
"He developed new ways of using traditional materials; he reconciled the intractability of metal to the fluidity and animation of nature; and , without resorting to narrative, he imbued his architectural monuments with the sensation of human presence…" Jasia Reinchard
Sculptures and Works
His works are in numerous public and private collections, museums and galleries in the country and abroad. However, his most notable works are:
Dušan Džamonja’s Park of Sculptures, near Vrsar, is a famous and cultural tourist attraction.
The Memorial Ossuary to the Fallen Yugoslav Soldiers of the First and Second World Wars in southern Italy, Barletta.
Designed a number of monuments to the Partisans and victims of concentration camps, most notably the Memorial Ossuary at Barletta, near Ban (completed 1970) and the Monument to the Battle of Kozara (completed 1972).
Awards and Accomplishments
He was a recipient of numerous awards and is an academician with both Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Below is a list of his awards:
1958 Third and Fourth Award for conceptual design for Memorial in Jaijinci, Yugoslavia
1959 One of six identical awards on international competition for Monument to the Victims of Dachau, Germany First Award for sculpture, Salon 59, Rijeka, Croatia
1960 City of Zagreb Award, Croatia
1961 Premio Morgan's Paint, Rimini, Italy First Award for sculpture, First Triennale of Modern Sculpture, Beograd, Yugoslavia
1962 Fourth Award, National competition for Monument to Revolution in Slavonija, Kamensko, Croatia
1963 Second Award, IV Biennale, San Marino, Italy
1965 Gold Medal for artistic activity, Veruchio, Italy
1968 Second Award on the competition for Monument to Victims of Fascism in Podhum, Rijeka, Croatia First Award for Memorial Ossuary in Barletta, Italy
1970 First Award for Monument to Revolution, Kozara, Bosnia
1974 Second Award for design of Memorial Ossuary, Roma, Italy First Award for conceptual design for Memorial to Victory and Fallen Fighters, Sremski Front 944-45, Yugoslavia
1977 Rembrandt Prize, Goethe Stiftung zu Basel, Switzerland
1980 Second Award for conceptual design for Monument to Edvard Kardelj, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1982 Second Award for National Competition for the Monument in Jajinci, Beograd, Yugoslavia
1983 Third Award, Terceiro Biennale der Europäischen Grafik, Baden-Baden, Germany 1986 Award of the Jury, Biennale of Original Drawing, Rijeka, Croatia
1990 Second Prize for the design of the Monument on Rhein - Main - Donau Kanal, Germany
