Tetec Dražen

Dražen Tetec was born on 24 January 1972 in Koprivnica.
He grew up and lives in Hlebine where he completed his elementary school.
In the gentle and peaceful environment of Podravina plain he takes the brush and paint, and in 1991 began the first oil paint on glass.
After the first group exhibition in 1992 in the Hlebine gallery Tetec started his cooperation with Joseph Generalić who teaches him how to express his own unique technique on the glass.
The result of this cooperation are 3 individual exhibitions in Zagreb and in the Hlebine Gallery.
After that the painter moves independently with its artistic path.
As a diligent and talented painter so far he has had over hundred collective exhibitions and ten solo exhibitions.
He is a memeber of the ‘’ Croatian Naive Artists Association”, “Association of Hlebine painters and Naive sculpture ” and the art section “Podravka 72.”
His oils on canvas and glass are in many private collections and galleries, and promise continuity of the “Hlebine school of painting.”
Dražen Tetec lives and workes in his studio in Hlebine.