Glavocic Daina
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Dolac 1, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
Acta Med Hist Adriat. 2008;6(1):9-14.
In this essay Dr Valter Rukavina (Rijeka 1896-1972), excellent specialist in infectious diseases and professor of the Rijeka University School of Medicine, is presented as successful amateur painter. He had been refining his talent through relentless practice since the school days, complementing it with skills and advice from established painters he associated with. He favoured figurative, realistic and somewhat romantic expression for his themes such as coastal landscapes, marinas, Quarnero sceneries, still life in tempera or oil, and drawings in ink or sepia. Despite partial colour blindness, he successfully used colour. He featured in a number of group exhibitions such as that of amateur painters of Rijeka in 1950, of painters physicians of Yugoslavia (Zagreb, 1956), in the Second International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Florence, 1964), exhibition of the Rijeka branch of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (Belgrade, 1966), and the 1969 exhibition in Opatija. His native city hosted two one-man exhibitions, the first retrospective in 1971, while he was still alive, and the second posthumous in 2007, with a good selection of his life's work.
在本文中，瓦尔特·鲁卡维纳博士（里耶卡，1896年 - 1972年），里耶卡大学医学院传染病领域的杰出专家及教授，被展现为一位成功的业余画家。自学生时代起，他便通过不懈练习来打磨自己的天赋，并从与之交往的知名画家那里获取技巧与建议，以不断完善自己。他倾向于具象、写实且略带浪漫主义的表达方式，其主题包括沿海风景、码头、夸尔内罗风光、蛋彩画或油画形式的静物，以及墨水画或深褐色画。尽管存在部分色盲问题，但他仍成功地运用了色彩。他参加了许多群展，比如1950年里耶卡业余画家展、南斯拉夫画家医生展（萨格勒布，1956年）、第二届当代艺术国际展（佛罗伦萨，1964年）、克罗地亚视觉艺术家协会里耶卡分会展（贝尔格莱德，1966年）以及1969年奥帕蒂亚展。他的家乡城市举办了两次个展，第一次是1971年他在世时的回顾展，第二次是2007年的遗作展，展出了他一生中精选的作品。
