Vladimir Becić

Vladimir Becić
Akt djevojke kod stola (Girl Nude at a Table) by Vladimir Becić, 1907. oil on canvas 61.4x46.5 cm, Modern Gallery, Zagreb
Born	(1886-06-01)June 1, 1886 Slavonski Brod, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Died	May 24, 1954(1954-05-24) (aged 67) Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Education	Munich under Hugo von Habermann, Paris
Known for	Painting
Notable work	paintings (oils and watercolours), drawings, prints
Movement	Modern

Vladimir Becić (1886–1954) was a Croatian painter, best known for his early work in Munich, which had a strong influence on the direction of modern art in Croatia.

Becić studied painting in Munich at the prestigious Academy of Arts along with Oskar Herman, Miroslav Kraljević and Josip Račić. This group of Croatian artists are known as the Munich Circle or Munich Four, and are very important figures in Croatian art of the 20th century. After Munich, Becić spent 2 years studying and working in Paris before returning to Zagreb in 1910.

During the First World War, Vladimir Becić worked as a war artist on the Salonika Front producing a series of images of the soldiers and wounded. Following the end of the war, he spent time in a village near Sarajevo, where he painted landscapes and rural subjects in a style that used colour and tonal variations to depict form and space.

Becić was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1924–1947), and a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1934.

Vladimir Becić was born in Slavonski Brod 1 June 1886.

He initially studied law in Zagreb and attended private art school of Menci Clement Crnčić and Bela Čikoš Sesija. In 1905, he gave up his law studies for art, moving to Munich where he first studied with Heinrich Knirr, and then at the Academy of Arts. In 1909, he went to Paris where he enrolled in the Academy La Grande Chaumiére and worked as a draftsman at the magazine Le Rire. He returned to Zagreb in 1910, where he staged his first solo exhibit.