Sculptor Ivan Meštrović

Ivan Lozica was born in 1910 in Lumbarda, the first of seven children in the family of Antun and Ana Lozica Barbareško. He attended the stone carving artisanal school in Korčula, and in 1926, as an extremely talented youth, only just sixteen years old, was accepted as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His teachers there were Robert Frangeš Mihanović, Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić. He died in 1943.