Josip Trostmann

was born on June 9th, 1938 in Dubrovnik. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and in the same year became a member of HDLU. He currently engages in art pedagogy. He is one of few artists who continue to bear the colors traditional to Dubrovnik. Regarding the chosen motives and typology, he is a modern painter most characteristic of Dubrovnik, demonstrated through his passion and devotion. Thanks to these attributes and his significance, he has laid a path for modern Croatian fine arts. Depicting subjects from both native land and still life, his works range between impressionism and expressionism. Distinctly characteristic to him is his works with patterns of painted stains with which the subject is dissolved into light.

INDEPENDENT EXHIBITIONS:

1963 Dubrovnik, Sponza Pallace
1966 Apeldoorn, Netherlands
1970 Dubrovnik, Art Gallery
1982 Split, Salon Galić
1983 Dubrovnik, Art Gallery
1985 Zagreb, Gallery Schira
1990 Dubrovnik, Gallery Sebastian; Zagreb, Gallery Forum
1993 Dubrovnik, Art Gallery
1994 Zagreb, MGC Gradec
1997 Split, Milesi Pallace
1999 Dubrovnik, Art Gallery
2000 Zagreb, Museum of Arts and Crafts
2002 Mostar, Gallery Aluminij
2003 Zagreb, Gallery Forum
2006 Split, (HAZU Institute Milesi Pallace)

AWARDS:

1981 Zagreb, Recognition of SALPEH
1982 Dubrovnik, Spring Exhibition HDLU DBK, special award
1986 Dubrovnik, Recommendation from the Congress of Dubrovnik County
1991 Dubrovnik, City of Dubrovnik Award
1997 Zagreb, Medal of Order of Danica Hrvatska with the figure of Marko Marulić.