Vladimir Becić

After Munich, Becić spent 2 years studying and working in Paris before returning to Zagreb in 1910. During the First World War, Vladimir Becić worked as a war artist on the Salonika front producing a series of images of the soldiers and wounded. Following the end of the war, he spent time in a village near Sarajevo, where he painted landscapes and rural subjects in a style that used colour and tonal variations to depict form and space. Becić was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1924–1947), and a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1934.

Vladimir Becić studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Académie de la Grande Chaumière. The recorded working language is Croatian. The field of work recorded is painting. Édouard Manet is recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with University of Zagreb. Work by Vladimir Becić is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina.

• Name — Vladimir Becić • Born — 1 June 1886 • Birthplace — Slavonski Brod, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary • Died — 24 May 1954 • Place of death — Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia • Known for — Painting • Training — Munich under Hugo von Habermann, Paris • Movement — Modern • Notable Works — paintings (oils and watercolours), drawings, prints

Vladimir Becić was born in Slavonski Brod on 1 June 1886. He initially studied law in Zagreb and attended the private art school of Menci Clement Crnčić and Bela Čikoš Sesija. In 1905, he gave up his law studies for art, moving to Munich, where he first studied with Heinrich Knirr, and then at the Academy of Arts. In 1909, he went to Paris where he enrolled in the Academy La Grande Chaumiére and worked as a draftsman at the magazine Le Rire. He returned to Zagreb in 1910, where he staged his first solo exhibit. He exhibited his artworks as a part of the Kingdom of Serbia's pavilion at the International Exhibition of Art of 1911. Becić then worked in Osijek, Belgrade and Bitolj. He joined the Serbian army shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. He was then a war correspondent and artist for the magazine "L'Illustration" on the Salonika front, creating a series of images of the soldiers and the wounded. In 1919, he held his second solo exhibit, also in Zagreb. From 1919 to 1923, Vladimir Becić lived and worked in the village of Blažuj near Sarajevo, producing a series of oils and watercolours of landscapes, peasants and shepherds that show an increasingly mature style of tonal painting using colour forms for rounded volume and space. He then moved back to Zagreb, where he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts (Croatian: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti) (1924–1947). In 1930, Vladimir Becić, together with Ljubo Babić and Jerolim Miše formed "Group Three" (Grupa trojice). Becić became a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1934, at that time called the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Art. Vladimir Becić died in Zagreb on 24 May 1954.

• Guslar (Guslac) 1906 • Nude Study (Studija Akta) 1906 • Woman Nude in Front of Mirror (Ženski Akt pred ogledalom) 1906 • Oak (Hrast) 1907 • Nude Girl at a Table (Akt djevojcica kod stola) 1907 • Nude with Newspaper (Ženski akt s novinama) 1907 • Nude in Front of Mirror (Akt pred ogledalom) 1908 • Girl with Doll (Djevojčica s lutkom) 1908 • Portrait of Miroslav Kraljević (Portret Miroslava Kraljevića) 1908 • Self-portrait with Hat (Autoportret sa polucilindrom) 1908 • Still Life (Mrtva Priroda) 1909 • Watermelons (Lubenice) 1911 • Hill Landscape with Stream (Planinski pejzaž s potokom) 1923 • Vera 1926 • Peasant Woman (Saljanka) 1926 • Fisherman (Ribar) 1932 • Girl with Flower (Djevojka s cvijecem) 1933 • Small Meadows (Male sjenokoše) 1934 • Boy with Corn (Dječak s kukuruzom) 1935 • Crabs (Rakovi) 1936 • Ragotin 1937 • Tovarenje ugljena, 1938 • Samoborski pejsaž, 1941.

• 1910 in Zagreb • 1919 in Zagreb • 1984 Vladimir Becic - Umjetnicki paviljon / Art Pavilion Zagreb, Zagreb • 2005 Adris Gallery, Rovinj Vladimir Becić, Svjedok Istine Postojanja

• 1973 Paintings of the Munich Circle - Umjetnicki paviljon / Art Pavilion Zagreb, Zagreb • 2007 Iz fundusa galerije - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik • 2008 From the holdings of the museum - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik

• Galerija Kaptol, Zagreb Croatia

Online gallery of paintings at Gallery Adris

Vladimir Becić is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as having studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

• Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia • Gallery of Fine Arts / Galerija likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek, Osijek, Croatia • MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia • Galerija Umjetnina Split, Split, Croatia • MSU Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia