Đuro Tiljak [SEP] date of birth
Đuro Tiljak
Đuro Tiljak (1895-1965) was a Croatian artist, writer and teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and studied for some time in Moscow with Wassily Kandinsky. During the 1930s, he was editor of the journal "Culture" ("Kultura") and "Writer" ("Književnik") magazine. For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
in search of inspiration, and visited the island of Vis.
In December 1942 Tiljak joined the partisans along with his friend Marijan Detoni. During the war period he found refuge in the painters' colony in Cozzan, returning to Zagreb in 1945 to take up the post of professor at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb where he continued to teach until his retirement.
Đuro Tiljak died in Zagreb on 11 December 1965.
Legacy.
Initially influenced by impressionist and postimpressionist painters such as Cézanne, Van Gogh and