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Marija Mihalić - Wolf
1889.
1959.
Education:
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, 2 terms at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
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| Biography: At the age of 14, she left Virovitica for Zagreb. She lived with her grandmother in Vlaška Street. Together with primary school, she received primary music education which made her a music lover and connoisseur until the end of her life. After finishing her studies in 1912, she received a "Qualification Certificate" to work as a primary school teacher. After a further two terms at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, in 1913 she was awarded a certificate to teach drawing in all classes, and "geometrical" drawing in lower forms of secondary schools. She worked in the Women's College, and, from 1921 until she retired in 1946, at the First Women's Secondary school in Zagreb. At the age of 26, (1915) she married the mathematics teacher Hinko Wolf. In spite of three children and teaching which made many generations of students interested in artistic expression, she never lost her love of painting, but most of her works were created before the birth of her first child, in 1916, and after she retired. |
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