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Zoran Mušič (Bukovica near Gorizia 1909-2005 Venice) was born near Gorizia and grew up speaking three languages - Italian, Slovenian and German. After the end of World War I, the family moved to Carinthia. Mušič graduated from high school in Maribor and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. As a freelance painter, he finally settled in Venice after longer stays in Spain and in the Dalmatian Karst, which was to play a special role in his art. The lagoon city became his true home. During World War II, Mušič was deported to the Dachau concentration camp, where he created about 200 drawings that captured life in the camp. Thirty-six sheets of this cycle have survived to this day and, several decades later, together with the indelible traumatic memories of that time, formed the basis for a relentless artistic memorial, Mušič's cycle of images Wir sind nicht die Letzten [We Are Not the Last Ones]. After the end of the war, Mušič lived alternately in Venice and Paris. He created numerous iconic portraits, distinctive depictions of horses, barren landscape depictions of the Karst, and poetic cityscapes of his two cities of life. Zoran Mušič participated in the Venice Biennale six times, and three times in the documenta in Kassel. In 1957 he was awarded the Graphic Prize of the Ljubljana Biennial, followed by the UNESCO Prize in 1960. In 1981 he received the French title Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. The artist's work has since been honored in numerous major retrospectives, including the Albertina in Vienna (1992), the Grand Palais Paris (1995), the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (1997), the Slovenian National Gallery in Ljubljana (2009), and the Leopold Museum in Vienna (2018). The STRABAG Artcollection holds around 100 works by the artist.
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