Franović Toni – Ludbreg 2

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15, 1967. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood and has been exhibiting since 1989. After three years of medical studies at the University of Zagreb, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1990. In 1993, he started working at the “Arad Arts Project” in Arad, where he taught painting. In the academic year 1994/95, he stayed at the American University, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., where he taught spirituality in art. At the end of 1995, he was employed as a junior assistant at the painting and drawing department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught life drawing and plein air painting until 2004. He has been a guest lecturer at the Kresage Academic Center in Washington D.C., the School of Visual Arts in New York, and others. His notable artistic projects on public buildings include the central Name building in Zagreb, the interior of the Jewish Community building in Zagreb, Or Kodesh Jewish Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, and more. His paintings and works are part of numerous private and public collections and museum funds in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held over one hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh Beit Omanim (the Israeli artists’ community). He currently lives in Zagreb.