Mihovil Krušlin, Landscape, watercolor, 30 x 40,3 cm, inv. no. 3910, National Gallery of B&H

Mihovil Krušlin

(Ključ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1882 – Laduč na Sutli, Croatia, 1962)

He received his first painting lessons from Joso Bužan, and after that in the painting school of M.C. Crnčić and B. Čikoš Sesija. He graduated from the College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (today’s ALU) in 1911, under M.C. Crnčić. He worked as a freelance artist in Kraljevica 1914-16, Graboštani 1916-22, Farkaševac near Samobor 1922-40, and then in his native Ključ. He painted landscapes and veduta of familiar panoramas. Several retrospective exhibitions of his works were organized posthumously (Marija Gorica 1969, Šenkovac 1972, Brdovec 1976 and 1987, and Zagreb 1982, 1995, 2010). In front of the Mihovil Krušlin Community Center in Ključ, his marble bust, the work of D. Grgas from 1975, was placed.