Charles Billich is outstanding Croatian painter born in 1934 in the town of Lovran in Istria, and since 1956 working in Australia. He has permanent exhibition of his works at Hakane Museum in Tokyo since 1997, and was designated the official artist of the Australian Olympic team for Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. I like his Canberra cantata. In 1998 Charles Billich completed his series of Bleiburg paintings. He was elected the official painter of Australian and the USA national teams at Olympic Games in Greece, 2004. In 2004 he was elected the Official Artiest of the 2008 Beijing Olympiad. Laureate of the Milan & Spoleto Award, Italy, in 1989. His most famous galleries are Billich Gallery in Sydney (100 George Street), Australia, and Fortezza Gallery in the lovely town of Lovran, Croatia. In 2004 he had the exhibition of some of important Croatian contributions to science, held in the building of United Nations in New York (portraits of Faust Vrancic, David Schwartz, Lupis Vukic, Slavoljub Penkala, Josip Vucetic, Nikola Tesla, Marin Getaldic, Rudjer Boskovic, Marco Polo, Andrija Mohorovicic, Spiridion Brusina, Lavoslav Ruzicka, also Croatian cravate, and an oil representing one of truly painful Croatian themes from the period 1945-1948 immediately after the WW2: Bleiburg). He was commisioned to paint East Timor’s official independence painting. He presented a painting to pope John Paul II.

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Charles Billich is outstanding Croatian painter born in 1934 in the town of Lovran in Istria, and since 1956 working in Australia. He has permanent exhibition of his works at Hakane Museum in Tokyo since 1997, and was designated the official artist of the Australian Olympic team for Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. I like his Canberra cantata. In 1998 Charles Billich completed his series of Bleiburg paintings. He was elected the official painter of Australian and the USA national teams at Olympic Games in Greece, 2004. In 2004 he was elected the Official Artiest of the 2008 Beijing Olympiad. Laureate of the Milan & Spoleto Award, Italy, in 1989. His most famous galleries are Billich Gallery in Sydney (100 George Street), Australia, and Fortezza Gallery in the lovely town of Lovran, Croatia. In 2004 he had the exhibition of some of important Croatian contributions to science, held in the building of United Nations in New York (portraits of Faust Vrancic, David Schwartz, Lupis Vukic, Slavoljub Penkala, Josip Vucetic, Nikola Tesla, Marin Getaldic, Rudjer Boskovic, Marco Polo, Andrija Mohorovicic, Spiridion Brusina, Lavoslav Ruzicka, also Croatian cravate, and an oil representing one of truly painful Croatian themes from the period 1945-1948 immediately after the WW2: Bleiburg). He was commisioned to paint East Timor’s official independence painting. He presented a painting to pope John Paul II.

Charles Billich Collections (incomplete):

• The Vatican Collection
• The Parliament of Japan
• The Royal Collection of Thailand
• The City of Rijeka, Croatia
• The Town of Lovran, Croatia
• The City of Orebic (Franciscan Monastery: The Way of the Cross), Croatia
• Embassy of Croatia, Canberra, Australia
• City of Düsseldorf
• The City of Osaka, Japan
• The City of Sydney, Australia
• State Theater, Sydney, Australia
• The City of Melbourne, Australia
• United States Sports Academy
• New York State Govt. Port Authority
• Hall of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
• Internatinal Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
• QinShiHuang BingMa Yong Museum, X’ian, China
• more

Velimir Trnski, top Croatian painter, “paid tribute to Katarina Zrinski née Frankopan (17th century), the young widow of Petar Zrinski, but seen, and painted, from a (post)modern sensibility angle” (Darko Glavan, art historian).

Davor Vrankic, distinguished Croatian painter living and working in Paris and New York, uses the motives of interlace patterns from the north of Croatia (more precisely, from his native Slavonia) in his extremely complex and intricate artistic compositions.

Charles Billich Collections (incomplete):

• The Vatican Collection
• The Parliament of Japan
• The Royal Collection of Thailand
• The City of Rijeka, Croatia
• The Town of Lovran, Croatia
• The City of Orebic (Franciscan Monastery: The Way of the Cross), Croatia
• Embassy of Croatia, Canberra, Australia
• City of Düsseldorf
• The City of Osaka, Japan
• The City of Sydney, Australia
• State Theater, Sydney, Australia
• The City of Melbourne, Australia
• United States Sports Academy
• New York State Govt. Port Authority
• Hall of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
• Internatinal Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
• QinShiHuang BingMa Yong Museum, X’ian, China
• more

Velimir Trnski, top Croatian painter, “paid tribute to Katarina Zrinski née Frankopan (17th century), the young widow of Petar Zrinski, but seen, and painted, from a (post)modern sensibility angle” (Darko Glavan, art historian).

Davor Vrankic, distinguished Croatian painter living and working in Paris and New York, uses the motives of interlace patterns from the north of Croatia (more precisely, from his native Slavonia) in his extremely complex and intricate artistic compositions.