Slava Raškaj
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Slava Raškaj Net Worth

Slava Raškaj was a Croatian painter born in 1877 who is widely regarded as the greatest watercolorist of the early 19th century. Born deaf, she learned to speak at a basic level and studied under Bela Čikoš Sesija and in Vienna. Her paintings were unique in their subjects, often featuring still lifes with odd combinations of objects, and darker shades than were popular at the time. Later in life, she began painting outdoor scenery which are now her most famous works. Despite her short life, her paintings are highly regarded and fetch record prices at auctions.
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Who is it? Painter
Birth Day January 02, 1877
Birth Place Ozalj, Croatian
Age 142 YEARS OLD
Died On 29 March 1906(1906-03-29) (aged 29)\nZagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria–Hungary
Birth Sign Aquarius
Known for Painting

💰 Net worth

Slava Raškaj, a renowned Croatian painter, has left an indelible mark on the art world with her exceptional talent and unique works. Born in 1877, she overcame various obstacles to pursue her passion for painting, ultimately gaining recognition for her exquisite landscapes and portraits. While we may never truly measure the true value of her artistic contributions, Slava Raškaj's net worth is estimated to range between $100K and $1M in 2024. Her legacy as a painter in Croatian art remains unparalleled, solidifying her status as an extraordinary artist whose impact will continue to endure for generations to come.

Biography/Timeline

1877

Raškaj was born as Friderika Slavomira Olga Raškaj on 2 January 1877 into a middle class family (her mother Olga ran the local post office which was at the time a prestigious administrative position) in the town of Ozalj in present-day Croatia (at the time in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, a subdivision within Austria-Hungary). Olga liked painting in her free time and she passed her love for arts very early on to both her daughters Slava and Paula (Paula later worked as a schoolteacher in Orahovica and also continued to paint casually in adulthood).

1890

In the late 1890s she started painting en plein air, depicting outdoor scenes from the Zagreb Botanical Garden, Maksimir Park and other parks in the city, featuring somewhat lighter tones and colors. In 1899 she returned to her hometown of Ozalj and continued to paint outdoors, which was also unusual at the time. Her most valuable paintings were all created in the 1890s, including works such as Self-portrait, Spring in Ozalj, The Old Mill and others. Her works were first publicly exhibited at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb soon after it opened in 1898, where six of her watercolors were presented along with the works of renowned Painters such as Menci Klement Crnčić and Vlaho Bukovac. Her paintings were also exhibited in Saint Petersburg, in Moscow and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, where five of her paintings were shown.

1893

When she was eight, Raškaj was sent to Vienna to enroll at a school for deaf people where she first learned to draw. Her drawings from that period mainly depict casts of classical sculptures drawn in pencil or ink (two of these drawings survived and are kept on display at the Croatian School Museum at Republic of Croatia Square in Zagreb). During her time in Vienna she also learned German and French and in later years moved on to watercolor and gouache techniques before returning to Ozalj in 1893.

1895

Upon her return, the local schoolteacher Ivan Muha-Otoić noticed her artistic talent and urged her parents to send her to Zagreb for further art instructions at the renowned Painter Vlaho Bukovac's atelier in 1895 (as Bukovac was a friend of Muha-Otoić). Once in Zagreb, Bukovac refused to help her but then Bela Čikoš Sesija took her in and began instructing her in his own studio in 1896. She spent the next few years working with Sesija - she lived at what was then the State Institute for Deaf-mute Children (Zemaljski zavod za odgoj gluhonijeme djece) on Ilica Street, and she used a local Morgue as her studio (in the meantime her former Teacher from Ozalj Ivan Muha-Otoić became Director of the Institute in 1895).

1898

Her works have been exhibited since 1898 in art pavilions of Zagreb, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. It was the prolific part of her career when most of the valuable works were done, including:

1906

In 1902, due to chronic depression, aggression and other psychological symptoms she was institutionalised. She died March 29, 1906.

2000

In December 2000 the Croatian National Bank issued a silver commemorative coin depicting Slava Raškaj, in their Famous Croatian Women series (Znamenite Hrvatice), along with children's Writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić and the 17th-century noblewoman Katarina Zrinska.

2004

A Croatian film about her controversial relationship with Sesija titled 100 Minutes of Glory directed by Dalibor Matanić was released in 2004, and a grand retrospective exhibition featuring 185 of her works opened at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb between May and August 2008.

2014

Soon, the first symptoms of the disease started to show up—loneliness, alienation, need for privacy and nature. Old abandoned mills, depth of the canyon of Kupa river, ruins started to be the focus of her mind.

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