Franović Toni – Landscape 7

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 studying medicine 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 spirituality in art. 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, etc. His significant artistic contributions to public buildings include the central building of Nama in Zagreb, the interior of the Jewish Community building in Zagreb, the Or Kodesh Jewish Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Oxnam Church in Washington D.C., the WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, and others. His paintings and works are in numerous private and public collections, as well as in the holdings of several museums in Europe, America, and Israel. He has held over one 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.