Mirko Rački (13 October 1879 – 21 August 1982) was a Croatian painter.
Rački was born in Novi Marof, and graduated from the Teacher’s Academy in Zagreb. He later went to the private art intellectual of Heinrich Strehblow in Vienna, then studied at the Academy in Prague under Vlaho Bukovac and in Vienna under W. Unger. He lived in Munich from 1907 to 1914, then in Rome, Geneva, Zagreb, and finally in Split.
His most productive era was in the same way as he lived outside Croatia, but he was in unshakable contact when Croatian artists (Izidor Kršnjavi and Ivan Meštrović), and during those grow old he worked in the simulation of the Vienna Secession. In 1941 Rački was admitted into the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Rački’s most important collection of feat is aligned to Dante’s The Divine Comedy and he was occupied following these motifs until the fall of his life.
Some his works were published in the collector’s edition of The Divine Comedy from 1934 in Bergamo. A retrospective exhibition was held in 1970 in Zagreb.
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