Miljenko Stančić

Miljenko Stančić (1 March 1926 – 13 May 1977) was a Croatian painter and graphic artist born in Varaždin.

Along with Ljubo Ivančić, Ivan Kožarić, Valerije Michieli and Josip Vaništa, he was a member of the Grupe Petorice (Group of Five) which was active in the 1950s in Zagreb.

Besides painting, he also did illustrations for newspapers, books and magazines, as well as scenography (he was a scenographer for In Agony, a play by Miroslav Krleža, 1959).

He exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad, including: Group of Five, Museum of Arts and Crafts (Zagreb, 1955), Modern Yugoslav Painting (Edinburgh, Coventry, Manchester, Leicester, 1957), 60 Years of Croatian Painting and Sculpture, Art Pavilion (Zagreb, 1961), Studio 65, Galerie (Bruxelles, 1967), Museum of Arts and Crafts, (Zagreb, solo exhibition, 1971), Croatian Cityscape Painters from Bukovac to the Present Day, Art Gallery (Dubrovnik, 1981).

[1] The Miljenko Stančić Collection belongs to the Town Museum in Varaždin, Croatia.