Franović Toni – Landscape 6

Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15, 1967. He has been drawing and painting since early childhood, exhibiting since 1989. After three years of medical studies 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. During the 1994/95 academic year, 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 Department of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught life drawing and painting en plein air until 2004. He also guest lectured at the “Kresage Academic Center” in Washington D.C., the “School of Visual Arts” in New York, and others. His significant artistic interventions on public buildings include the central building of Nama 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 in numerous private and public collections as well as the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held more than one hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists of Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.