Dusan Dzamonja

Style: Abstract Art;

Place: Strumica

Born: 1928

Death: 2009

Biography:

Dušan Džamonja was a Yugoslav sculptor of Serbian ancestry. He was born in Strumica, Macedonia, in 1928. In 1945, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under the professors Vanja Radauš, Frano Kršinić and Antun Augustinčić. He graduated in the master class of professor Antun Augustinčić in 1951. He worked in the Krsinic workshop from 1951 until 1953 when he started his workshop in Zagreb. He held his first solo exhibition in the Salon ULUH in Zagreb in 1954. In 1970, he began the construction of his house and workshop in Vrsar, Istria according to his own design. He died in Zagreb in 2009.