Đuro Seder is a Croatian painter. He lives and works in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Croatia.

At the beginning of his career he worked as an illustrator, image editor and designer at various magazines. He was one of the founding members of the Gorgona Group

Gorgona Group

The Gorgona Group , was a Croatian avant-garde art group which consisted of artists and art historians: Dimitrije Bašičević-Mangelos, Miljenko Horvat, Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa, operated along the lines of anti-art in...

, whose active members between 1959 and 1966 were Miljenko Horvat, Ivan Kožarić

Ivan Kožarić

Ivan Kožarić is a Croatian artist who works primarily with sculpture but also works in a wide variety of media, including: permanent and temporary sculptures, assemblages, proclamations, photographs, paintings and installations...

, Julije Knifer

Julije Knifer

Julije Knifer was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....

, Dimitrije Bašičević

Dimitrije Basicevic

Dimitrije Bašičević was an artist, critic and curator, working under the pseudonym Mangelos. He made handmade books, sculptures and paintings....

 (who also worked under the name Mangelos), Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Marijan Jevšovar

Marijan Jevšovar

Marijan Jevšovar was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....

 and Josip Vaništa. During the Gorgona period he was more active in the group than with solo presentations, and his work was marked by the informel-influenced disintegration of form, negation of traditional painting techniques and reduced use of colours, which can be seen for example in his works, Anonymous Form, (1963) and Little Signs (1964). Seder also contributed to the group's publication of the same name, and wrote texts and poetry in the literary magazines Razlog, Kolo and Republika

Republika (magazine)

Republika is a magazine published in Serbia. The magazine was started by a group of Yugoslavian intellectuals, members of the Union for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, in March 1989....

. In 1978 his collection of poems Father from the Pot was published by BiblioTEKA in Zagreb. At the beginning of the 1970s Seder radically changed his mode of painting; he began using a wider range of colours, realistic figurative forms and expressive gestures. He works at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (since 1981) where he has been appointed Professor Emeritus.

He has exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad, including: The Post-War Generation Painting, Art Gallery (Dubrovnik, 1960), Art Gallery (Split, 1960) and, Studio G (1960), Sixty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Croatia, Art Pavilion in Zagreb (1961), Đuro Seder, Gallery SC (Zagreb, 1964), Seder, Gavella Theatre (Zagreb, 1973), Informel 1956-1962, Gallery Nova (Zagreb, 1977) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade)

Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade is the art institution which collects and displays work produced since in 1900 in Serbia and former Yugoslavia. The museum also organizes international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It was founded in 1958 as the Museum of Modern Art...

, (1977), Arte contemporanea, Valle Giulia, Galeria Nazionale (Rome, 1979), Abstract Tendencies in Croatia 1951–1961, Modern Gallery, (Zagreb, 1981), Gorgona and After, Student Centre Gallery (Belgrade, 1986), (Un)recognizable Painting, National Museum of Contemporary History (Ljubljana, 1994), Đuro Seder Parisian Cycle – 1988, Gallery Forum (Zagreb, 2003) and, A Fight with an Angel, Gallery Arh (Rijeka, 2005) and at the Academia Moderna (Zagreb, 2009).

He has received many honours and awards, including: the Vladimir Nazor Award

Vladimir Nazor award

The Vladimir Nazor Award is an annual award given by the Croatian Ministry of Culture to Croatian artists for highest achievements in various artistic fields. It was established in 1959 and is named after the notable writer Vladimir Nazor...

 for Painting (1986), the Medal of the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for his contribution to the arts, and the Vladimir Nazor Life Achievement Award (2002).

Published works on Đuro Seder

• Kusik, Vlastimir & Rus, Zdenko, Seder (ArTresor studio, Zagreb, 2002).