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Orlando Mohorović
Croatian artist
Orlando Mohorović (born 1950 in Labin) is a Croatian artist.[1] He is one of the original members of a group of artists called Labinski atelieri.[2]
Mohorović came to Düsseldorf in 1969 and met Joseph Beuys there. The Admission Board of the department Free art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf admitted him as a student to Beuys' courses of . Orlando Mohorović was studying painting and sculpture from 1970 to 1974.[3] At that time New Realism paintings, conceptual art, performance, sketches, small drawings and aquarelle as a pattern for installations were developed.
In 1970 he had his first exhibition in the room 20 and in the hallway.
On 5 February 1974 he was appointed master student of the Beuys class. Mohorović belonged to the group of Beuys-students, like many other renowned German artists (Jörg Immendorff, Katharina Sieverding, Anselm Kiefer, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke) .[4][5]