Return from the Field

1969
oil/glass
400 x 500 mm
signature: down in the left corner: Barberov Milček 1969.

Three men and one child with agricultural tools on their shoulders on their way back to the village. Composition is circulary closed with a fence, houses and trees. In the background a multitude of willows in the meadows.

Milan Generalic (nickname: Milcek Barberov) was born on March 8, 1950 Hlebine in Podravina. The first lessons in painting on glass he got by his uncle Ivan Generalic. When hewas eleven, his uncle gave him a box of colors as a birthday present. In 1965 he finished elementary school in Hlebine, and went to Zagreb to the school of applied art. He died in 2015 in Hlebine.