Račić is considered one of the most important and most enigmatic figures in the history of Croatian modern art. From humble beginnings he had, before the age of 20, appeared in Munich - one of the most lively and creative art centers in Europe at the time - and with 3 colleagues soon formed what came to be called Die Kroatische Schule (The Croatian School; in Croatian art history they are known as the Munich Circle or the Munich Four.) Within 4 short years he produced a remarkably mature body of work, almost all of which was created while he was still a student. Three months after turning 23 he was dead. Josip Račić (22 March 1885, Zagreb – 19 June 1908, Paris), Croatian painter. He had drawing instruction in elementary school, and at the age of 15 he began studying lithography as a trade. In 1904 he went to Munich to study at the school of Anton Ažbe who encouraged the 19-year-old to go on working and studying. The next year he found employment as a lithographic draughtsman in Berlin, but later that same year returned to Munich and entered the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied for three years. In 1908 he moved to Paris where, that Spring, he died of gunshot wounds in a hotel room. The reason for his suicide remains a mystery. (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2017/05/and-then-he-was-gone-paintings-by-josip.html) ... one of the best known of the modern Croatian painters.... He died of a gunshot wound in a Paris hotel room in June 1908, having committed suicide. Josip Račić is one of the founders of modern Croatian art, the first to bring the concept of self-awareness and artistic integrity to his life and works, "pure painting", as he called it. A particular feature of his paintings is the strong dark realms of human spirituality. A retrospective of his work was held in the Modern Gallery in Zagreb and Dubrovnik in 2008-2009, to mark the 100th anniversary of the artist's death. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Ra%C4%8Di%C4%87) undefined

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