Nikola Masic - Artist Info

About Nikola Masic

  • Biography

    Nikola Mašic, a Croatian artist, began his artistic education in Vienna in 1872 before continuing his studies in Munich under Alexander Wagner. He traveled to Italy in 1874 to study ancient monuments and later painted in the region of Posavina. Influenced by Marià Fortuny i Marsal's Japonisme at the Paris World Fair in 1878, Mašic continued to travel around Europe before returning to Zagreb in 1884 due to deteriorating eyesight. He worked as a drawing teacher at the School of Crafts and later became the director of the Strossmayer Gallery in 1894.

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