Andrija Maurović
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Andrija Maurović
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| Born |
29 March 1901 Muo (part of Kotor), Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 2 September 1981 (aged 80) Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist |
Andrija Maurović (29 March 1901 – 2 September 1981) was a renowned comic book author, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics.
Maurović was born in the village of Muo (part of Kotor) in Boka Kotorska in present-day Montenegro (at the time in Austria-Hungary) to a family of Slovene-Montenegrin origin. After a short sojourn to Kraków in Poland, he moved with his family to the nearby city of Dubrovnik where he attended elementary and secondary school.
Following the recommendation of the writer Ivo Vojnović, he enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb. Soon, he got into conflicts regarding norms and rules, since the academy prevented students of any work during their studies. At that time he started illustrating books, weekly and daily newspapers, and also graphic institutions, booksellers and editors, particularly for St. Kugli. As the best students, particularly in drawing, he dropped his first academic year. Being extremely busy with the work he liked, he did not take his academic fiasco tragically. Working on illustrations, caricatures, posters and graphic design, he became one of the best, and his work appeared in the editions of papers and magazines like Jutarnji list, Novosti, Koprive, Ženski svijet, Kulisa.
In 1935, he created his first comic Vjerenica Mača, which was published in the Zagreb newspaper Novosti. In the same year Maurović co-launched Oko, the first Yugoslav comics magazine.
Maurović collaborated with many eminent Croatian writers and screenplay writers, such as Franjo Fuis. He also drew his illustrations based on literary models of epic world writers and novelists like Alex Tolstoy, Zane Grey, August Šenoa, Jack London, B. Traven, Max Brand, and H. G. Wells.
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