Ivan Rabuzin
Croatian naive painter
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| Intro | Croatian naive painter | |
| Places | Croatia | |
| was | Artist Painter Politician | |
| Work field | Arts Politics | |
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| Birth | 27 March 1921, Ključ, Una-Sana Canton, Una-Sana Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Death | 18 December 2008Varaždin, Varaždin County, Croatia (aged 87 years) | |
| Star sign | Aries |
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Ivan Rabuzin (27 March 1921 – 18 December 2008) was a Croatian naïve artist.
Rabuzin's father was a miner, and Ivan was the sixth of his eleven children. Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years, and did not begin painting until 1956, when he was thirty-five years old. He had little formal training as an artist, but his first exhibition of paintings proved successful and he changed careers, becoming a professional painter in 1962.
Rabuzin's paintings included Avenue and My Homeland. He was active in politics as a member of Croatian Democratic Union, and from 1993 to 1999 he was also a member of the Croatian Parliament (in the second and third assemblies). He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Rabuzin decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.
Rabuzin died 18 December 2008 in a hospital in Varazdin, Croatia.