Zvonko Maković

Zvonko Maković was born in 1947. He graduated in Art History and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1973. Since 1975, he has worked as an Assistant, Associate Professor, and Full Professor at the Department of Art History, where he also earned his master’s and doctoral degrees. He chaired the Department of Modern Art and Visual Communications until his retirement in 2012. He was the initiator and leader of numerous scientific and exhibition projects and editor of accompanying catalogues and monographs. At the 49th Venice Biennale, he served as the Croatian Commissioner and organized the exhibition of Julije Knifer’s works. Since 1968, he has published around ten poetry collections, twenty essay books, scholarly studies, and monographs, as well as two collections of columns he wrote for newspapers from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
For his literary and professional contributions, he has received the highest honors and awards. In 2024, the President of the Republic of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, awarded him the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for his overall contribution to Croatian culture. From 2005 to 2009, he served as President of the Croatian P.E.N Centre, and from 2014 to 2022, he was President of the Croatian Society of Art Historians.