Zlatko Bourek
Zlatko Bourek (4 September 1929 – 11 May 2018) was a Croatian-Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture.
Zlatko Bourek
- Name
- Zlatko Bourek
- Born
- 4 September 1929
- Birthplace
- Požega, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)
- Died
- 11 May 2018
- Place of death
- Zagreb, Croatia
- Education
- University of Zagreb
- Nationality
- Croatia.
- Occupation
- painter, screenwriter, marionetteist, director, costume designer and sculptor.
- Fields
- theatre, film, visual arts and puppetry company.
- Languages
- Croatian.
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Zlatko Bourek (4 September 1929 – 11 May 2018) was a Croatian-Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture.
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• Name — Zlatko Bourek • Born — 4 September 1929 • Birthplace — Požega, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) • Died — 11 May 2018 • Place of death — Zagreb, Croatia • Education — University of Zagreb
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Biography
Bourek was born in Požega. He was raised in Osijek, where he moved at the age of 4, by his Jewish mother and Serbian stepfather. Bourek graduated in sculpture and painting at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1955. During his career he made several theater set designs, and had many solo and group exhibitions. He had solo exhibitions in Duisburg, New York, Dubrovnik, Varaždin, Osijek and Zagreb. In 1959, Bourek started doing graphics work and in 1963 he exhibited the paintings that had all the features of his artistic creation, turned to grotesque humor and surrealistic feel of the folk element.
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Zlatko Bourek worked in theatre, film, visual arts, puppetry company and art of sculpture. He belonged to Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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1929
Zlatko Bourek born at Požega.
2018
Zlatko Bourek died at Zagreb.
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