Franović Toni – Landscape 8

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 studying medicine at the University of Zagreb, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1990. In 1993, he began 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 of 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, teaching figure drawing and plein air painting until 2004. He has been a guest lecturer at the Kresge Academic Center in Washington D.C., the School of Visual Arts in New York, and others. 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., WUJS Institute in Arad, Israel, among others. His paintings and works are held in numerous private and public collections and 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 and Zuh Beit Omanim (the Israeli Artists’ Community). He currently lives in Zagreb.