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Maximillian Vanka |
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Date of
Birth:
1889 Discipline(s): Painter, Muralist Painter Maximilian Vanka was celebrated as the finest Yugoslavian portraitist in the 1920's and 1930's. He exhibited throughout Europe, receiving |
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honors as the 'Palme Academique' of the French Legion of Honor, before moving
to the United States in 1934.
Although his first New York shows were not well received, Vanka gained American recognition in 1937, when he was commissioned to paint two sets of eleven murals for the St. Nicholas Church of Millvale, Pennsylvania. Noted as some of the finest examples of church murals in the United States, the strongly anti-war images depict not only traditional Catholic scenes and symbols, but also scenes showing the lives and spirituality of the Croatian immigrant community in the small mining town. |
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| After completing the second set of murals in 1941, Vanka moved to Rushland, Bucks County, with his family. There he continued to work, exhibiting only rarely, and teaching Art Appreciation at the National Agricultural College outside of Doylestown. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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He
established the art department at Delaware Valley College of Science and
Agriculture in New Britain, Pennsylvania. After his death in 1963, a bird
sanctuary was established in his honor at the Washington Crossing Nature
Education Center.
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Coffee and Fruit |
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Winter Afternoon |
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