Franović Toni – Landscape 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 in 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 1994/95 academic year, he stayed at the “American University, Wesley Theological Seminary” in Washington D.C., where he taught the spirituality of art. At the end of 1995, he was employed as an assistant at the Department of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he taught figure drawing and plein air painting until 2004. He was a guest lecturer at the “Kresage Academic Center” in Washington D.C., the “School of Visual Arts” in New York, and others. His significant artistic projects on 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, Washington D.C., WUJS Institute, Arad, Israel, and others. His paintings and works are part of numerous private and public collections as well as in the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held more than a hundred solo exhibitions. He is a member of HDLU, Zuh-a Beit Omanim (the community of visual artists in Israel). He currently lives in Zagreb.