page_title: Mijo Kovačić
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Mijo Kovačić / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting by Mijo Kovačić
context_page_description: Mijo Kovačić is a Croatian painter and naïve artist. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb.
context_section_description: Kovačić was born in Gornja Šuma, Molve, in the Podravina region of Croatia. He spent his childhood painting and looking after the family cow, which became an important theme in his paintings. In 1953 at the age of eighteen he travelled to nearby Hlebine and met the Croatian painter Ivan Generalić, and a year later gave his first exhibition in Koprivnica. In 2018 a gallery devoted to his work opened in Koprovnica.
caption: Gale over the Ditch (1976) by Mijo Kovačić
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