Ivan Tabaković

Ivan Tabaković (10 December 1898, Arad – 27 June 1977, Belgrade) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Serbian painter.

Biography

Tabaković was born in Arad, then part of the Habsburg Empire, in 1898, a son of noted Serbian architect Milan Tabaković. He studied at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, and afterwards, at the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb and Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Tabaković's education under the mentorship of Ljubo Babić in Zagreb and with Hans Hofmann in Munich, guided his painting towards the foundations of modernist painting. This period culminated in the painting Genius (1929), the zenith of his Zagreb period (1925–1930). His Novi Sad period (1930–1938) was marked by a gradual abandonment of the Zemlja style morphologically, stylistically and partially ideologically and instead became "characterized by a multitude of extraordinary depictions of private and public spaces, still-lifes and landscapes with brilliant drawings, with elements of melancholy and sophisticated use of color, richly nuanced."

Tabaković died at Belgrade on 27 June 1977.

Works Genius (1924) Shadows (1954) Message (1968)