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Name
  
Stojan Batic

Series
  
The Miners


Died
  
September 17, 2015

Role
  
Sculptor

Awards
  
Preseren Award

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Education
  
University of Ljubljana

Stojan Batič - Človek in mit / Otvoritev razstave


Stojan Batič (2 February 1925 – 17 September 2015) was a Slovene sculptor. Mostly a figurative artist, he is particularly known for his sculptures exhibited in many public places in Slovenia.

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Life

Stojan Batič Stojan Bati The Man and the Myth retrospective exhibition

Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As a teenager, he worked in the local coal mine. At the age of 19, he joined the partisan resistance and fought the invading Nazi German forces. After World War II, he was the first to enroll at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture under Boris Kalin and Frančišek Smerdu. In 1957, he received a scholarship, which enabled him to study in Paris with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine.

Stojan Batič Spomenik Database Profile for Stojan Bati

Batič lived and worked in Ljubljana. In 1995, he had a show at Ljubljana City Gallery. In 2015, the Jakopič Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of his work under the title "The Man and The Myth" (Človek in mit).

Work

Stojan Batič Stojan Batic Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

Batič, predominantly a figurative sculptor, is known for about 40 public monuments depicting events from Slovene history, as well as European and Oriental myths and legends. His best-known works include the monument to the Slovene peasant revolts at Ljubljana Castle featuring a group of men holding war scythes, and the Itaka series of figurative sculptures. His 1957 bronze sculpture Balet (Ballet) stands in front of Tivoli Castle in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana. In the 1960s, he created a mining-related series in lignite, and in the 1970s a series of glass sculptures, the two representing his most significant approach to abstract art.

Awards

In 1960, Batič received the Prešeren Award, the highest prize for artistic and cultural achievements in Slovenia.

Stojan Batič Stojan Batic Alchetron The Free Social Encyclopedia

Stojan Batič FOTO Jankovi mestno odlikovanje efu Pozitivnih seniorjev

Stojan Batič Stojan Bati The Man and the Myth retrospective exhibition

Stojan Batič Poslovil se je kipar Stojan Bati Prvi interaktivni multimedijski

References

Stojan Batič Wikipedia