Musicians (People Fortress)

Brando Ružić (1919 - 1997) in his 37th year, having dealt with painting for some years, started making sculptures. He did them in various materials (in wood, bronze, marble, terracotta, clay and stone), his expression being affected the medieval sculptural inheritance, Henry Moore and contemporary Croatian sculptors like Ivan Kožarić. Ružić’s work covers figures, portraits and abstract forms; he is characterised by simplicity and monumentality, as well as by the metaphorical charge in his expression. His sculptural oeuvre essentially enriched Croatian visual production in the second half of the 20th century.