Mila Wod (1888-1968), the first Croatian woman-sculptress

Mila Wod (yes, Wod, not `Wood', 1888-1968), created the monument of Stjepan Radic in 1929. The monument was placed on the main square in Petrinja (south of Zagreb) in 1936. The communist officials moved it from the main square, called the Radic Square, to the city parc, and during the 1991 Homeland War the monument has been destroyed and thrown into an orchard in the village of Cuncic. In 1998 the monument was discovered and transported into the iron foundry of works of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where it has been renewed by means of a plaster copy from the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Radic's monument has been placed again in Petrinja on December 28th, 1999.

Original text in Croatian:

Mila Wod je izradila kip Stjepana Radica godine 1929. Spomenik je prvi put na petrinjskom trgu postavljen 1936. Komunisticke vlasti su 1963. maknule spomenik s glavnoga trga koji je nosio Radicevo ime u gradski park, a u Domovinskom ratu 1991. spomenik je uništen i bacen u vocnjak u selu Cuncicu. Godine 1998. spomenik je pronaden i prevezen u ljevaonicu umjetnina na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti gdje je obnovljen uz pomoc gipsanog otiska koji se nalazi u gliptoteci HAZU-a.

Radicev spomenik je ponovno postavljen u Petrinji dne 28. prosinca 1999.

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Mila Wod (1888-1968) also created a plaque of Stjepan Radic (1871-1928), which has been kept in the Museum of the town of Ilok. The plaque has been stolen from the museum during the Greater Serbian occupation of the town (1991-1997). Source

Stjepan Radić, his first monument was carved in 1929 by Croatian sculptress Mila Wod (yes, one "o"),
here exhibited in 1935 in Zagreb, in the then Croatian Peasant House (now Gallery of Modern Art).
When the monument was placed in the town of Petrinja in 1936, the solemn opening was attended by
thirty thousand people, when Petrinja had five thousand citizens only!

The Times, London, reported about the assasination of Stjepan Radić,
and about his statue carved by Mila Wod. The photo was taken in Zagreb, inside the then
Croatian Peasant House.

This monument of Stjepan Radić, carved by Mila Wod in 1929, was the first one dedicated to him,
as well as the first public monument in Croatia carved by a woman.
Mila Wod's father was of the Czech origin, while her mother was Croatian.

Stjepan Radić and Mila Wod in Petrinja in 1929, when the statue was completed,
just a year after his assassination in the Belgrade Parliament.

Župna crkva sv. Ilije u Metkoviću


Krasan zavjetni oltar Srca Isusova Kralja izradila je istaknuta hrvatska kiparica
Mila Wod 1940. g., doprinosima župljana.
Mila Wod je izradila i krstionicu u crkvi sv. Ilije u Metkoviću.

Vidi također Matija Maša Vekić: Hrvatska kiparica Mila Wod, Zagreb 2019., str. 32-33.

o. Ante Gabrić

Mila Wod (1888-1968): 641-1941, Hrvatska sveta godina - Croatian Sacred Year (medal)
Hrvatski grb

Mila Wod izradila je lijepu figuru sv. Benedikta u opatiji sv. Kuzme i Damjana
na brdu Ćokovac kod Tkona, na otoku Pašmanu.
Fotografirala Mirna Lipovac.