Jerolim Miše

Jerolim Miše (25 September 1890 – 14 September 1970), was a Croatian painter, teacher, and art critic. He painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes of his native Dalmatia. A member of the Group of Three, Group of Four, and the Independent Group of Artists. In addition to being an exhibiting artist, Jerolim Miše taught and encouraged other artists for over 60 years, wrote articles and critiqued visual arts. As both a painter and a critic, he made an enormous contribution to modern art in Croatia.

Biography Jerolim Miše was born on 25 September 1890 in Split. He began to study painting at the craft school in Split, then attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, but moved to Rome, and finally Florence where he completed his formal training at the Accademia Internazionale. The move to Rome came after an incident where he published criticism of his teacher Menci Clement Crnčić in the paper Zvono. During his time in Italy (1891–1914), he wrote critiques and reviews of the Italian contemporary arts scene for newspapers and journals back home. He continued to write and publish stimulating articles about the visual arts scene right though his life built up a reputation as an articulate and well informed critic. On the eve of the First World War, Miše returned to Split. During the war he was conscripted, and afterwards spent a number of years (1917–1937) teaching in schools in Krapina, Slavonski Brod and Zagreb. His first solo exhibition was held in 1914 in Split, and from 1917 he participated in the exhibitions of the Spring Salon in Zagreb. During the period 1921-1927 he exhibited with the Independent Group of Artists (Grupa nezavisnih umjetnika) whose other members were Ljubo Babić,…Citește mai mult

Legacy While studying in Rome and Florence, Miše was more interested in art theory than practice, spending time with the Rome avant-garde circle, questioning issues such as Viennese secession as opposed to Italian futurism and post-cubist trends. There, he also spent time with fellow Split native Ivan Meštrović. However, Miše’s painting from that period do not show the influence of Art Nouveau secessionist linearism nor heroic mythology. His motifs are simple, the content minimalist. Miše's early work consisted mainly of portraits, but he later developed into a landscape painter, and finally began to paint everything he saw: views, landscapes, portraits, still lifes, animals. His later landscapes of his native Dalmatia capture an experience of the colour and atmosphere. Miše went to Paris for the first time in 1925, and according to the painter himself, that is when his “reorientation” started. For his retrospective exhibition in 1955 at the Modern Gallery, Zagreb, he wrote: "I started with the Secession and I was already thirty-two when I came into contact with van Gogh, Renoir and Cézanne". In 1928, for the first time he spent a long period in Supetar on the island of Brač where he painted a series of views of…Citește mai mult

Girl with Melon (Djevojku s dinjom) Portrait of Ivo Tartaglia (Portret Ive Tartaglie), 1919

Seascape, Supetar (Primorsku vedutu, Supetar) Noon in Supetar, (Podne u Supetaru) 1928 Portrait of the Painter Rački (Portret slikara Račkog), 1929

Red House (Crvene kuće), 1930 Noon in Koločep (Podne u Koločepu), 1931

Grouper (Škarpina), 1934 May Morning on Lopud (Majsko jutro na Lopudu) Still life with brushes (Mrtva priroda s kistovima), 1961

Solo shows During his lifetime, Miše held solo exhibits in Split, Slavonski Brod, Rijeka, Zadar, Zagreb and Belgrade. Selected recent solo exhibitions include 2008 Jerolim Miše - Gallery Adris, Rovinj 1990 Jerolim Miše - Art Pavilion, Zagreb 1970 Jerolim Miše Retrospective - Gallery of Fine Arts, Split

Selected recent group exhibitions include 2006 Croatian Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje

Public collections Jerolim Miše's work can be found in the following public collections

Croatia Gallery of Fine Arts, Split (Galerija Umjetnina) Split Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti)