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'''Ivan Meštrović''' ({{IPA|hr|ǐʋan mɛ̂ʃtrɔʋit͡ɕ|lang|Ivan_Mestrovic.ogg}}; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a [[Croatia]]n and [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern [[List of Croatian sculptors|Croatian sculptor]] and a leading artistic personality in contemporary [[Zagreb]]. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's Stone Workshop in [[Split, Croatia|Split]] and at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]], where he was formed under the influence of the [[Vienna Secession|Secession]]. He traveled throughout Europe and studied the works of ancient and [[Renaissance]] masters, especially [[Michelangelo]], and French sculptors [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Antoine Bourdelle]] and [[Aristide Maillol]]. He was the initiator of the national-romantic group Medulić (he advocated the creation of art of national features inspired by the heroic folk songs). During the First World War, he lived in emigration. After the war, he returned to Croatia and began a long and fruitful period of sculpture and pedagogical work. In 1942 he emigrated to Italy, in 1943 to Switzerland and in 1947 to the United States. He was a professor of sculpture at the [[Syracuse University]] and from 1955 at the [[University of Notre Dame]] in South Bend, Indiana.
Most of his early works of symbolic themes were formed in the spirit of the Secession, some of which, like the [[Well of Life (sculpture)|Well of Life]], show impressionist restless surfaces created under the influence of Rodin's naturalism, and the second, reviving national myth, become stylized monumental plastics (Kosovo cycle, 1908-1910). Before the First World War, he left pathetic epic stylization, expressing increasingly emotional states, as evidenced by the wooden reliefs of biblical themes made in a combination of Archaic, Gothic, Secessionist and Expressionist styles. During the 1920s and 1930s, the classical component prevailed in his works. In this period, he created a number of public monuments of strong plastic expression, pronounced and legible shapes (Grgur Ninski and Marko Marulić in Split, Andrija Medulić, Andrija Kačić-Miošić and Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Zagreb, [[Pobednik]] in [[Belgrade]], Svetozar Miletić in Novi Sad and [[The Bowman and The Spearman|''The Bowman'' and ''The Spearman'']] in Chicago). Portraits take a special place in his opus.
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* ''[[Monument to the Unknown Hero]]'', Avala, Belgrade
* ''[[Victor (monument)|Victor]] monument'' on [[Kalemegdan Fortress]] in [[Belgrade]]
* ''[[Svetozar Miletić]]'' in [[Novi Sad]] (1939)
* ''[[Nadežda Petrović]]'' in [[Čačak]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Timotijević|first=Miloš|title=Политика, уметност и стварање традиција (Подизање споменика Надежди Петровић у Чачку 1955. године)|trans-title=Politics, art and creation of traditions: The establishment of Nadežda Petrović monument in Čačak in 1955)|url=https://www.academia.edu/29725557|journal=Зборник радова Народног музеја|volume=XXXI|year=2002|location=Čačak|language=sr|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Nikola Tesla]]'' in Zagreb
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* [[Ivan Meštrović Gallery]] in Split, created after his major donation in 1950, which includes 86 statues in marble, stone, bronze, wood and gypsum, 17 drawings, and also eight bronze statues in the open garden, 28 reliefs in wood in the ''kaštelet'' and one stone crucifix
* Ivan Meštrović Memorial Gallery created in 1973 in [[Vrpolje]], his birthplace, with 35 works in bronze and plaster stone
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* [[National Museum of Serbia]] holds sculptures and monuments (a total of 45 works) including ''Miloš Obilić'', ''Kosovo girl'', ''Srđa Zlopogleđa'', ''Kraljević Marko'', and ''Widow''
* [http://www.lasm.org/visit/contact-lasm/ Louisiana Arts and Science Museum (LASM)] (retrieved January 29, 2016) in Baton Rouge has a large collection of his sculpture and drawings.
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