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Biography

Ivan Rabuzin was born in 1921 in the Croatian village of Kljuc. In 1947 he graduated as Master Carpenter from the School of Applied Crafts in Zagreb. After his graduation he spent his evenings at night school learning how to draw and every free minute painting. After years of hard work he discovered his own poetic style of painting, while his theme is always Zagorje – his native land.
With his first one-man show in Zagreb in 1960 Rabuzin was recognized as one of the stars of Croatian naive art. In 1963 he started painting professionally and exhibited in Paris. The Paris show launched him in Europe and very soon the rest of the world. Ivan Rabuzin has exhibited all over the world at hundreds of exhibitions. He has received numerous awards for his work, while various films have been made about him and many monographs published in Europe and the United States. He died in 2008.

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The Forrest

€580
The Forrest Ivan Rabuzin, one of the most famous Naive painters in the world, in this work of art has depicted Spring in the woods with the trees in flower. The clouds are pink like the flowers on the trees and dominate the upper part of the picture.The artist usually depicts scenes from his native Zagorje with its gentle rolling hills.

Village Flowers

€580
Village Flowers This is a picturesque country scene with small village houses in the middle ground. Painted in his characteristic style, this Spring landscape is rich in the number of subtle green tones in the lower part of the picture.Using a number of gentle blue tones Rabuzin painted a sky with gray and white clouds floating on it. There is a fairytale feeling created by the giant flowers in the foreground.