Biography of Ivan Tabaković

Ivan Tabaković (1898-1977) was Serbian painter.

Born in Arad, Hungary (presently in Romania), he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, and afterwards, at the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb. In the autumn of 1922, he left for Munich, only temporarily interrupting his studies in Zagreb. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts for two semesters, in the class of Professor Becher Gundal, as well as Hans Hofmann's private school.

In 1926, after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Tabaković was engaged as a part time  draftsman at the Institute of Anatomy, a department of the Medical School at the University in Zagreb.  He moved to Novi Sad in 1930, and started his pedagogical work in 1938 at the School for Applied Arts in Belgrade.  After the foundation of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Academy of Applied Arts (in 1948), he continued his work at the Ceramics Department. He became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1965.

Tabaković won a Grand Prix for ceramics on the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris (1937).

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Rođen je u Aradu, u današnjoj Rumuniji. Slikarstvo je učio na Akademiji lepih umetnosti u Budimpešti, a potom na Kraljevskoj  akademiji primenjenih umetnosti u Zagrebu.

Godine 1922. odlazi u Minhen, gde je dva semestra pohađao tamošnju Akademiju lepih umetnosti u klasi profesora Becher Gundal-a  i Hansa Hofmana.

Oko 1926. godine radi na Anatomskom institutu u Zagebu. Dok je boravio u Hrvatskoj, Tabaković je bio član grupe "Zemlja", čiji su  članovi negovali likovni izraz sličan Novoj objektivnosti u Nemačkoj.

Godine 1930. preselio se u Novi Sad, a 1938. počeo je da radi u Beogradu kao profesor u Školi za primenjene umetnosti. Nakon  osnivanja Akademije primenjenih umetnosti (1948) nastavio je da radi na odeljenju za keramiku.

Umro je u Beogradu 1977. godine.