
ABOUT
Painter and sculptor whose works of Naïve Art were inspired by everyday life. His most important period was between 1970 and 1976.He was a popular practitioner of folk medicine. Patients came from far and wide to seek out his homeopathic cures.He and fellow painter Marta Ehrlich were both natives of Croatia.
BEFORE FAMEHe was employed as a miner before pursuing art. He was taught how to paint on glass by famed art pedagogue Krsto Hegedušić.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born into a peasant family who could not afford to send him to art school. He was killed in 1991 when his home in the Stolnik hamlet of Donja Voća was broken into by two burglars.
FUN FACTSPainter Slavko Stolnik were born on Tuesday, birthstone is Pearl, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Snake, it is 155 days until Slavko Stolnik next birthday.
- 87Jan. 07 1922