Pedagoški rad kipara Rudolfa Valdeca
Pedagogical Work of Sculptor Rudolf Valdec

Summary/Abstract: In autumn of year 1907. was founded so called Royal Temporarly high school for the Art and Artcrafts, today the Academy of Fine Arts of University of Zagreb. In same time was founded Department of Sculpture, about what is the article. Analysis is forced by the original archivistic documents and arguments, specially those which are talking about pedagogical activity of Rudolf Valdec, beside Robert Frangeš – Mihanović, the first Croatian modernist sculptor (Krapina, 8th of March 1872. – Zagreb, 1st of February 1929.). Valdec came to Academy as a professor of subjects ”Decorative sculpturing” and ”Anatomy of Human” in the second semester oft he first school year, in 1st of March 1908. He remained there as a professor until he died relatively young in 57. year of life by deasease emboly of pulmony, 1st of February 1929. In collaboration with the professor of painting Bela Csikos – Sesija, Valdec wrote the first ”Anatomic Atlas” in history of Croatian art education, the most useful for his lectures to the students, not only students of Sculpture, for all student of the first generation matriculated to this respectable Institution. Professors Rudolf Valdec i Bela Csikos – Sesija done it by the fundaments of German anatomic atlases. It consists 28 pages in three languages: in Croatian, in German and in Latin.

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