Ivan Tabakovic

Ivan Tabakovic was a Serbian painter born in Arad, Hungary. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest Budapest, and afterwards, at the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb. In the autumn of 1922, he left for Munich, only temporarily interrupting his studies in Zagreb. For two semesters he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, in the class of Professor Becher Gundal, as well as Hans Hofmann's private school. In the year 1926, Tabakovic was engaged as a part time drawer at the Institute of Anatomy, a department of the Medical School at the University in Zagreb. He moved to Novi Sad, Serbia in 1930. He started his pedagogical work in 1938 at the School for Applied Arts in Belgrade. After the foundation of the Academy of Applied Arts, he continued his work at the Ceramics Department. He became a member of SASA in 1965. Tabakovic won a Grand Prix for ceramics on the World exhibition World's Fair in Paris, 1937.Source: Absolute Astonomy www.absoluteastronomy.com; wikipedia.---The Ivan Tabakovic Fund was established by the wife of the late Academician Ivan Tabakovic, Rastislava Tabakovic in 1988 at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Fund's objective is awarding the exhibitions and works of art in all areas of fine arts and applied arts (paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, ceramics, as well as works in the area of new art research in the sphere of fine and applied arts that could possibly be created. The Fund is controlled by the Department of Fine Arts and Music of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Source: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts www.sanu.ac.yu