Oste Erceg

Oste Erceg

Photo of Oste Erceg by Neven Djenadija (2013).
Born Oste Erceg
(1947-03-23)23 March 1947
Gornji Rakani, Novi Grad, Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Education Boško Karanović
Known for Painting, drawing,
Notable work Cherry (1980), Dawn in Rakani (1988), Rough horizon (2006), Sooty horn (2010), Father (2008)
Awards Purchase awards at Novi Grad Art Salon in 1987. 1988. and in 1989.
Patron(s) Lazar Drljaca, Stojan Celic, Djoko Mazalic

Oste Erceg (Serbo-Croatian: [Осте Ерцег]; born 23 March 1947) is a Bosnian Serb painter from Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Life

Erceg was born in Gornji Rakani, where he attended elementary and high school, graduating in 1966. He started painting in 1967, while attending the College of Textile - Chemical School in Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1972. Beginning in 1973, Erceg worked as an engineer in a textile industry. In 1986, he enrolled in a painting course at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, which he attended until 1990.

Work

Erceg is notable for producing all his work as fingerpainting. His work focuses largely on his homeland of Gornji Rakani, and his memories of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His oeuvre comprises 300 works, of which 100 have been sold to collectors from Australia to the Americas.

Reception

In her book Slikano perom art historian Danka Damjanović describes Erceg as a painter who developed his talent and style in isolation from other artists, who paints with emotion and expression as a means of cleansing and self-realization.[1]

Academician Enver Mandžić attributes Erceg's sense of color to his training as a textile dyeing engineer.[2] On Erceg's portraiture, Mandžić says "In every one of his portraits, we can discover those deep emotional traits that are immortalized in the spirit of artists and models."[2]


Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions

Gallery

Personal

Erceg is married and lives in Novi Grad. He has two daughters and owns a jewelry shop in Kostajnica.

References

  1. ↑ Damjanovic, Danka (2000). Slikano perom [Painted with feather]. Banja Luka Art Academy. p. 153.
  2. 1 2 Mandžić, Evnver (2006). "Paintings exhibition of Oste Erceg". The Bulletin of the Bosnian Cultural Center in Tuzla.

Further reading

Newspaper articles

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