Gabrijel Jurkić

Painter and artist. He was the first educated painter from Bosnia and Herzegovina to paint under the influence of Art Nouveau and Pointillism. Born in Livno, he studied in Sarajevo and completed his higher education at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In Vienna he also studied the history of art in Bosnia & Herzegovina. His first exhibitions occurred in Sarajevo and Zagreb in 1911. Until his death in 1974, he produced thousands of piece of unique arts from portraits to landscapes in his native Bosnia. He is considered one of the most prolific artist in Bosnia & Herzegovina. He had a falling out with the central government and spent the later years of his career in a Franciscan monastery in Livno. Upon his death, all of his paintings were gifted to the museum in Gorica, part of the monastery.