Kovačić Mijo

Mijo Kovačić was born on the 5th of August, 1935 in Gornja šuma by Molve in Podravina.
He started painting on glass in 1953 and had his first solo exhibition in 1954 in Koprivnica.
He learned about painting from Ivan Generalić.
He is known as the best portrait artist of Croatian naive art.
He has exhibited his work with Ivan Generalić and Ivan Večenaj in a grand tour of Croatian naive art which took the world by storm in the seventies.
He lives and works in Molve.