Zoran Music (1909 - 2005) - photo 1

Zoran Music

Zoran Anton Mušič is a Slovenian painter and graphic artist who has worked in Italy and France.

Zoran studied painting in Maribor and Zagreb, then went to Madrid and Toledo for a year, where he studied and copied works by Goya and El Greco. At the end of 1944, he became a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, where he spent several months. He survived and even made about two hundred drawings on paper in the camp. After his liberation, Mušić moved to Venice and later to Paris.

Zoran Mušić was the only artist of Slovenian origin who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of Italy and France, especially in Paris in the second half of the 20th century, where he lived most of his later life. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, as well as horror scenes from the Dachau concentration camp and Vedute Venice. In 1970-1971, the artist created a pictorial reminiscence cycle "We are not the last", dedicated to concentration camp prisoners and became the most famous of his works.

The figures in Mušić's paintings appear out of empty space and seem unfinished. The colors of his self-portraits are the harsh colors of the desert, eliminating the superfluous and reducing to a minimum. These paintings are evidence of the artist's search for answers to the basic questions of human existence.

Date and place of birt:12 february 1909, Bukovica, Slovenia
Date and place of death:25 may 2005, Venice, Italy
Nationality:Italy, Slovenia
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Artist, Graphic artist, Painter
Genre:Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Self-portrait, Still life
Art style:Post War Art, Contemporary art

Creators Italy

Giuseppe Zais (1709 - 1784)
Giuseppe Zais
1709 - 1784
Gianfranco Goberti (1939 - 2023)
Gianfranco Goberti
1939 - 2023
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838 - 1874)
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal
1838 - 1874
Alessandro Mendini (1931 - 2019)
Alessandro Mendini
1931 - 2019
Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946)
Joseph Stella
1877 - 1946
Giuseppe Marchesi (1699 - 1771)
Giuseppe Marchesi
1699 - 1771
Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574)
Giorgio Vasari
1511 - 1574
Theodoric Borgognoni (1205 - 1296)
Theodoric Borgognoni
1205 - 1296
Pompeo Aldrovandini (1677 - 1735)
Pompeo Aldrovandini
1677 - 1735
Leno Prestini (1906 - 1963)
Leno Prestini
1906 - 1963
Gaetano Sabatini (il Mutorolo, Il Mutolo) (1703 - 1734)
Gaetano Sabatini (il Mutorolo, Il Mutolo)
1703 - 1734
Cosimo Ulivelli (1625 - 1704)
Cosimo Ulivelli
1625 - 1704
Pieter Angellis (1685 - 1734)
Pieter Angellis
1685 - 1734
Ivan Meštrović (1883 - 1962)
Ivan Meštrović
1883 - 1962
Urban Grünfelder (1967)
Urban Grünfelder
1967
Agostino Verrocchi (1586 - 1659)
Agostino Verrocchi
1586 - 1659

Creators Contemporary art

Edmund Lewandowski (1914 - 1998)
Edmund Lewandowski
1914 - 1998
Reto Leuthold (1977)
Reto Leuthold
1977
Jeff Wall (1946)
Jeff Wall
1946
Helle Damkjaer (?)
Helle Damkjaer
?
Heribert C. Ottersbach (1960)
Heribert C. Ottersbach
1960
Valery Vladimirovich Vatenin (1933 - 1977)
Valery Vladimirovich Vatenin
1933 - 1977
Kilian Lipp (1953)
Kilian Lipp
1953
Roy DeCarava (1919 - 2009)
Roy DeCarava
1919 - 2009
Karl Knaths (1891 - 1971)
Karl Knaths
1891 - 1971
Maximilian Kirmse (1986)
Maximilian Kirmse
1986
Irene Klestova (1907 - 1988)
Irene Klestova
1907 - 1988
Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887 - 1979)
Andrew Michael Dasburg
1887 - 1979
Adolf Ziegler (1892 - 1959)
Adolf Ziegler
1892 - 1959
Ismail Gulgee (1926 - 2007)
Ismail Gulgee
1926 - 2007
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm (1921 - 1999)
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm
1921 - 1999
Giò Pomodoro (1930 - 2002)
Giò Pomodoro
1930 - 2002