Duro Pulitika

Croatia, 1922 - 2006

BiographyDuro Pulitika was born on January 26, 1922 in Bosanka, a village above Dubrovnik. He finished elementary and high school in Dubrovnik. He was keen on painting early, and his decision to dedicate to him matured in 1939 when he began visiting Kosta Strajnic's house.

He gained the much needed experience at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (where he found himself on two occasions for two years) in the class of Omer Mujadžic, and in systems with prof. Krsto Hegedusic, Ljubo Babic and Zlatko Sulentic. He left the academy and returned to his native Dubrovnik, to which he remained a painter all his life.

His first solo exhibition opened in Dubrovnik in 1953 in Likum. In the same year he exhibited in Split and Zagreb, and since then he has dated the notion of the Dubrovnik trio Dulcic-Masle-Pulitika. In 1973, his painting was accepted into the permanent exhibition of the Gallery of Sacred Art at the Vatican Museums in Rome.

He has exhibited independently in Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb, Rijeka, Ghent, London, New York, Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice, Turin and Paris.

Djuro Pulitika died on December 14, 2006 in Dubrovnik.

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