Zlatko Prica was born in Pécs, Hungary into a trading family. After finishing the first grade and the unfortunate breakup of his family, in 1922 he moved with his mother to Zagreb. He continued his education in Zagreb, Croatia and in 1936 enrolled at the Academy of Arts.


He passed the classes of excellent art pedagogues Omer Mujadžic, Krsto Hegedušic and Ljubo Babic. In his final year, he showed exceptional talent, so that in 1940 he was awarded the Paris Scholarship at the exhibition of graduate theses, which was determined by the College of the Academy.
He organized his first major exhibition in the Art Pavilion in April 1941 in Zagreb. In the summer of 1943, he went (with his wife Zdenko, Nikola Reiser's sister) to the par...