Ivo Rezek

[Croatia] (b 1898/d 1979)

In October 1915 went to the Higher School of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (now the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb ). He studies a year, and in 1916 was mobilized ( 1st World war is in progress). In 1918 he moved to Prague , where he went in the local Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Vlachs Bukovac . After studying until 1924, he became interested in wall art painting and  goes to Paris , where he studied at the Sorbonne , the fresco technique with Marcel Lenoir *. Returns to Zagreb in 1931 ; Rezek was a sharp critic of fascism (drawing a caricature of Hitler and Mussolini) and political persecution was in order before and during the War .. In 1947 . became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he worked until his retirement in 1968.
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Croatia 1943 "Famous Croats" (3) [1,(3)] Sc(56,57,58) [Engr (K. Seizinger)]

Croatia 1943 "Red Cross Fund" (10,2,2) [Litho][Typo / Cross (Tipografija, Zagreb)] Sc(B42,...,B51)

Croatia 1943 "Red Cross Fund / Charity Tax" (1) [Litho][Typo / Cross (Tipografija, Zagreb)] Sc(RA2)

Croatia 1944 "Postal and Railway Employees Relief Fund" (4,4,4) [Litho (Tipografija,Zagreb)] Sc(B52,...,B55)

Croatia 1944 "War Invalids Relief Fund" (4,4,4) [Litho (Tipografija, Zagreb)] Sc(B56,...,B59)

Croatia 1944 "Red Cross" (3,1) [Litho (Tipografija, Zagreb)] Sc(B70,...,B72)

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