Stjepan Gračan

Stjepan Gračan (Prugovac, February 28, 1941 – Zagreb, February 6, 2022) was a Croatian sculptor.

After interrupting his studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (1961 – 1963), he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture.

He graduated in 1968 from the class of Professor Antun Augustinčić, and completed his postgraduate studies in 1969.

He was an associate of A. Augustinčić’s Master Workshop from 1969 to 1971, and a co-founder and member of the art gallery and later art group Biafra (1970 – 1978).

From 1988, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

He is the author of several significant public monuments:

• Monument to Vladimir Nazor, Zagreb 1971.
• Monument to August Cesarec in Osijek.
• Bust of August Cesarec, Zagreb 1979.
• Monument to Đuro Đaković, Brodski Varoš 1982.
• Monument to Marija Jurić Zagorka, Zagreb 1990.
• Kumica Barica, Zagreb, Dolac market 2006.

Sources: Wikipedija, HBL