Solis Mate

Mate Solis was born in Zadar in the year 1935.
He attended grammar school in Cres and Rijeka, and then completed the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb.
1962. he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Initially he painted on the borders of abstraction, and later begins to emphasize the volume and color gamut, and then transferred to expressionist and surrealist phase.
At a later stage once again returned to abstract painting, with great drawings.
Solis mainly paints using oils and watercolors.
He has exhibited in Rijeka, Klagenfurt, Hamburg, Cres and elsewhere.
He is the author of numerous mural decoration in the hotels (Punta in Veli Losinj, Cres and Kimen in Aurora in Mali Losinj) [1] and the banks, and is engaged in furnishing books.
Mate Solis passed away on the 12th of November, 2019.