Ivan Generalić

He mostly drew with pencil on paper bags and some of these sketches were seen by Krsto Hegedušić, at the time (1930) just a student of the art academy, later a professor.

In 1959 he painted The Deer Wedding - his most valuable work, according to followers of the Croatian naïve art world.

Due to his technique of using oil paints on the reverse of a glass pane rather than conventional canvas, his pictures have a unique reflective quality.

[1] Generalić has a large number of followers, beside his colleagues who form the first generation - Franjo Mraz and Mirko Virius.

His second generation followers are Franjo Filipović, Dragan Gaži, Josip Generalić, Ivan Večenaj.