Ivan Generalić (1914 - 1992)

Ivan Generalić

Ivan Generalić was a Croatian painter of the twentieth century, a representative of primitivism. He was the founder of the Hlebin school of naive art, which educated dozens of artists. Most of his paintings belong to the genre of everyday life, although his masterpieces include many allegories, landscapes and portraits, as well as works on historical themes.

Ivan Generalić belongs to the greatest primitivist artists of all time. Even during his lifetime, more than 70 of his solo exhibitions were held all over the world, and today the largest museums in Europe, Asia and America regularly organize retrospectives of Generalić's works.