Albert Kinert: life and works

Albert Kinert (born in 1919 in Vinkovci, Croatia and died in 1987 in Zagreb, Croatia) was a Croatian performer and illustrator who worked in the media of painting and graphic arts.

Under the assumed name Toma Božić he made a series of comics published in the magazines Zabavnik (Publisher: Ustaški nakladni zavod, Zagreb) (The Perished City and The Explorers of the West), Kerempuh (The Story of Caliph the Tyrant, The Golden Key and Nasreddin Hodja) and Pokret (Beware of the Hand of Senj). He was along with an illustrator for the magazines Otkrića, Suvremena tehnika, Vjesnik u srijedu and for many books including: Bakonja fra Brne and Priče iz davnina (Tales of Long Ago). He after that published seven graphic maps (notably, in 1943 he published the map 40 Lithographs). He participated at the first exhibition of the Mart charity in 1957, after which he founded the Zagreb 58 group together taking into consideration Zlatko Prica, Edo Murtić, Nikola Reiser, Ivan Picelj, Vojin Bakić, Kosta Angeli Radovani and Dušan Džamonja. From 1954 to 1956 he taught at the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb. In the to the lead 1960s he was appointed partner professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and future as full professor (1971–1984).

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He exhibited at many solo and action shows in Croatia and abroad. He had a retrospective exhibition at the Modern Gallery, Zagreb (1985). He time-honored nine awards, including the Honorary Award by an international board of judges at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana, 1957), the JAZU (Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts) Cabinet of Graphics Award (1960), the Grigor Vitez Award for Illustration (for the book The Most lovely Classical Motifs, Školska knjiga, 1970), the Vladimir Nazor Award (Exhibition of Graphics and Drawings, JAZU Cabinet of Graphics, 1970) and the Grand Prix at the 7th Slavonija Painting Biennale (1979).

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