Vasko Lipovac - Biography

Biography

Vasko Lipovac was born on June 14, 1931 in Kotor, Montenegro. After graduating from secondary school in Kotor, he came to Zagreb, Croatia in 1950. He enrolled in the Academy of Applied Arts and graduated in 1955. From 1955 to 1959 he worked in the Master's Workshop of professor Krsto Hegedušić. That was a postgraduate study of a sort, one that gave talented young visual artists an opportunity to explore - each with their own artistic sensibility - their own artistic worlds within the contemporary movements of European and world art, which were very intensive and fruitful in the 1950s.

In a period of such creative force Vasko Lipovac will create his own world in the rich diversity of geometrical and anthropological humanistic reciprocity, nurturing a structural visual plausibility in sculpture and in painting, which was pouring out in time and space, as an always modern, powerful and dominant presence in contemporary Croatian visual art.

Since 1967, Vasko Lipovac has lived and worked in Split, Croatia, which, with its Mediterranean climate, inspired him to realise his poetic vision, and to create his visual richness, numerous works, cycles of paintings, graphics, watercolour paintings, sculptures and painted sculptures.

Since 1959, Lipovac has held around 100 solo exhibitions and over 200 group, juried, problem, conceptual, and important invitational exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He received over twenty awards and honours for sculpture, painting, graphics, illustrations and public monuments.

Vasko Lipovac died on July 4, 2006.