Ivan Meštrović (1883 - 1962)

Ivan Meštrović

Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian sculptor of the twentieth century. He is known as a master of monumental fine art. Meštrović was also an architect and a writer, and at the beginning of his professional career he painted oil paintings.

Throughout his life, Ivan Meštrović traveled extensively around the world and studied the works of famous sculptors of various eras. In his works, he combined elements of all kinds of art styles, from antiquity and the Renaissance to Art Nouveau and Symbolism.