Ivo Kerdić

• Name — Ivo Kerdić • Born — 19 May 1881 • Birthplace — Davor, Austria-Hungary (today's Croatia) • Died — 27 October 1953 • Place of death — Zagreb, Yugoslavia (today's Croatia) • Field — sculpture, metalwork • Training — Vienna, Paris • Illustration — Dora Krupićeva, Stone Gate

Ivo Kerdić was born on19 May 1881 in Davor, a small village near Slavonski Brod, Croatia, at that time in Austria-Hungary. The son of a wood merchant, he spent 4 years in elementary school, before going to Zagreb to learn the trade of locksmith in the school for artisans. In 1900, he went to Paris, where he worked during the day, and studied applied art in the evenings, learning engraving. He returned home on the death of his father, one year later. Not having the funds to resume his studies in Paris, in 1902 Kerdić went to Vienna, where he worked at the Gillar Bronze Factory, rising to foreman. Kerdić returned to Zagreb in 1913, where he took up a position as a lecturer at the College of Arts and Crafts. He pioneered bronze casting at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught metalworking from 1923 to 1947. Ivo Kerdić died in Zagreb 27 October 1953.

• Illustration — Proposal (unexcapted) of the design of 2 kuna coin, 1941.

Recent exhibitions of his work include: • 2011 Ivo Kerdić – Celebrating the 130th anniversary since the birth of the sculptor, Modern Gallery, Zagreb • 2004 Ivo Kerdic works from the permanent collection, Archeological Museum of Zagreb

• 1931 Belfast Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition of Yugoslav Paintings and Sculpture • 1930 Exhibition of Yugoslav Pictures and Sculpture (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea), 1930

Ivo Kerdić is recorded as a citizen of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Recorded with the occupation medalist. Recorded with the occupation sculptor.

His work can be found in the following public collections • Archeological Museum in Zagreb, Croatia • Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia • Glyptotheque Sculpture Museum, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts • Croatian History Museum