Ferdo Kovačević

After graduating from the Crafts School in Zagreb (1888), he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna in 1893. In Zagreb he worked as a drawing teacher at the Academy of Forestry, at the Crafts School from 1905, and as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1917. He is one of the founders of the Society of Croatian Artists in 1897 and an associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU) from 1919. His opus is dominated by landscapes, mostly in oil, with three distinguishing phases – painting with predominantly small strokes in the spirit of pointillism from 1898, impasto technique from 1905, and paintings with thinner layers of paint from 1915. He made drawings, sketches, oil studies, and pastels.