Bogdan Borčić

Bogdan Borčić studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. The recorded working language is Slovene. The field of work recorded is painting and graphics. Places of work recorded in the authority are Yugoslavia. Work by Bogdan Borčić is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Kosovo. Distinctions recorded are Prešeren Award, Župančič Award, Prešeren Fund Awards and Jakopič Award.

Borčić was born in Ljubljana. He spent his childhood at his grandfather's home in Komiža, a coastal town on the island of Vis, Croatia. During World War II, he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, Borčić studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He graduated in 1950, and continued his studies of painting with the Professor Gabrijel Stupica. He improved his work at the study travels to Amsterdam and Paris, where he worked in 1958 for three months in the studio of the printmaker Johnny Friedlaender. Since 1969, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where since 1976 he held the post of the full professor of printmaking. At the invitation of the Academy of Fine Arts (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in Mons (Belgium), he lectured printmaking there for one month. From 1980 until his death in 2014, he lived and created in Slovenj Gradec (Slovenia). In his later period, he created glowing images with extensive colour surfaces and added elements. He dedicated a series of images to the Dachau camp. The central motif of his last series of images was the smoking pipe.

Bogdan Borčić is recorded as having received Prešeren Award, Župančič Award and Prešeren Fund Awards. Recognition and collections. Borčić received Prešeren Award, Župančič Award, Prešeren Fund Awards and Jakopič Award.