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Lina Virant-Crnčić
1879.
1949.
Education:
With Bela Csikos Sessia and Menci Cl. Crnčić, (Zagreb, 1903- 1907)
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, 1907- 1910.)
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| Biography: Lovers of painting in Croatia know her primarily as the wife of the most famous painters of marinas and (together with Csikos) the first Professor of the Provisional College of Arts and Crafts who married his student Lina Virant in 1910.
Like some other women painters, she acquired the initial artistic education at the Teacher training convent college in Zagreb and in the Crafts school in Zagreb with Josip Bauer, master of decorative painting. In 1907, she joined the newly established Provisional College. If some of the women painters born in the 19th century were known for being – apart from painting – life companions, good wives and good mothers, then Lina is certainly an example. Together with this, she was very religious, honest and loyal in every respect. And as the "senior of Croatian women artists" (as she was often labelled in the press of that time), she was – in the eyes of the public and the Government – the most suitable person to become chairwoman of the Women Artists' Club when it was established in 1927 (although everybody was aware of the prevailing merit of the rebellious Nasta Rojc, who was unsuitable as a chairwoman due to her extravagant way of life). Although she mostly painted oil on canvas, Lina Virant Crnčić painted in different techniques used by artists of applied art. She illustrated books, especially stories for children, and was famous for her painting of craftsmen's standards, and as a painter and designer of church vestments. She was also known for her altar paintings for which she was commissioned by the Zagreb archbishop Dr Antun Bauer (e.g. for the seminary church on Šalata, Zagreb, in 1933).
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