Academic painter and museum’s documentalist (Stari Grad, 1899 - Split, 1974.)

Exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday

SPLIT – May 19th –June 15th, 1999

STARI GRAD – August 15th – September 5th, 1999.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments

Selection of works and art exhibition by Ljubomir Gudelj

RESPECT AND CONTINUATION OF OPULENT TRADITIONS

The generation of Bartol Petrić – says Ljubomir Gudelj – is linked by the commitment to landscape, portraits and still lives, which in the Croatian area means respect and continuation of already opulent traditions. By fitting into the European trend of suppressing emotions and after the eruption of first modernist attempts, their new-realistic artistic achievements took their place among the more fertile shoots of the national art heritage.

Bartol Petrić was educated by Emanuel Vidović in Split. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Zagreb in 1929 under the tutorship of Professor Tomislav Krizman, Maksimilijan Vanka, Bela Čikoš Sesija, Ljubo Babić and Vladimir Becić. He continued to deepen his knowledge about art in Paris in the mid -1930s and worked as an art teacher in Dalmatia upon his return home. He joined the partisan movement during the Second World War. After the War, he returned to work as a teacher. His last professional occupation until retirement was a documentalist-conservator in the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments.