Ignjat Job

Ignjat Job was a Croatian painter from Dubrovnik.

Ignjat Job was born in Dubrovnik, onMarch 1895. His father died when young Ignjat was onlyyears old. He attended school in Dubrovnik until 1910. An important influence on his early intellectual and artistic development was his older brother Cvijeto , whose art studies in Belgrade and Munich came to an end when he went off to fight in the First World War. As an active supporter for independence from AustriaHungary, the young Ignjat Job was arrested in 1912 along with other young nationalists and sentenced to one month in prison. In 1913, while Job was only 18, his first daughter, Marija was born. Arrested again in 1914, he spent time in ibenik prison, then removed to a mental hospital, thanks to good connections, until September 1916. Traumatic experiences from his twoyear stay in the mental hospital oppressed Job in the years that followed, and left a mark on his work, most notably on Madmen in the Yard, a drawing thought to have been made between 1916 and 1919.

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