Vilko Gecan (16 June 1894 – 25 June 1973) was a Croatian painter, influential in the Zagreb radical art scene of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings, and for his contributions to the local avantgarde magazine Zenit. He showed his conduct yourself in many solo and activity exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. In the Zagreb Spring Salon of the 1920s, he participated taking into consideration Milivoj Uzelac, Marijan Trepše and Vladimir Varlaj, who together were known as the “Group of Four” or “The Prague Four”. Trained in Prague, works of these young painters brought extra expressionist ideas that went on to dominate the 1920s Croatian art scene.
Vilko Gecan is considered one of the masters of ahead of time Croatian expressionism. Two retrospective exhibitions of his achievement were organized during Gecan’s lifetime, and a large posthumous exhibition was held in 2005 at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb. Gecan received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1967.
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