Franović Toni – Ludbreg 3

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15, 1967. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood, exhibiting from 1989. After three years of studying medicine at the University of Zagreb, he enrolled in 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., teaching art spirituality. At the end of 1995, he was employed as a junior assistant in the painting and drawing department at 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 contributions to public buildings include the central building of Nama in Zagreb, the interior of the building of the Jewish Community in Zagreb, Or Kodesh Jewish Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, among others. His paintings and works are held in numerous private and public collections, as well as in the funds of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has organized over a hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh-a Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists of Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.