Eugen Buktenica
* 1914 in Grohote (HRV)
† 1997
Fassbinder, 1957
oil on wood
55.5 x 40.5 cm
Eugen Buktenica (1914–1997) was a Croatian painter, farmer, and fisherman. In 1950, he was introduced to the painter Ante Kaštelančić, who offered him technical training. Much of his oeuvre shows the workaday lives of the peasantry around him.