Franović Toni – Landscape 1

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 was employed at the “Arad Arts Project” in Arad, where he taught painting. During the academic year 1994/95, he stayed at the American University, Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., where he taught art spirituality. At the end of 1995, he was employed as a junior assistant in the painting and drawing department at ALU in Zagreb, where he taught figure 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 Jewish Municipality building in Zagreb, the Or Kodesh Jewish Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., the WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, among others. His paintings and works are held in numerous private and public collections, as well as in the holdings 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 (Community of Visual Artists of Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.