Iveković Oton

(1869 – 1939, Croatia)

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna until 1891, and in the subsequent year he continued his studies in Munich, after   a recommendation of Isidor Kršnjavi. He enrolled in the master class for historical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1894, after which he got a job as a professor of painting (the Zagreb Gymnasium in 1895 and the Crafts School in 1896). From 1908 to 1927 he taught drawing and painting at the Provisional College of Arts and Crafts (today Academy of Fine Arts) and in 1910/11 he was appointed director. He participated in the creation of Croatian Modern Art, was one of the founders of institutional artistic life in Croatia: a member of the Society of Art, co-founder of the Society of Croatian Artists in 1897 and the Association of Yugoslav Fine Artists Lada in 1904.