Mila
Wod (1888-1968), the first Croatian woman-sculptress
Darko
Žubrinić, 2023.
Mila Wod i ubojstvo Stjepana Radića u Beogradskom Parlamentu 1928.
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.
Source
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
Mila
Wod also
made a medal "Hrvatska
sveta godina -
Croatian Sacred Year" in 1941.
Matija Maša Vekić: Hrvatska kiparica
Mila Wod, Zagreb 2019., p. 34
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.
Skulpture Mile Wod u Metkoviću
Mila Wod je surađivala sa znamenitim hrvatskim benediktincem Martinom
Kiriginom u Opatiji i u benediktinskom samostanu na Ćokovcu kod Tkona
na otoku Pašmanu.
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.
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