Iveković Ćiril Metod (1864-1933)

(Klanjec (Croatia) 1864-Zagreb (Croatia) 1933)

Born into a family of Croatian notables and intellectuals and brother of the painter Oton Iveković (1869-1939), Iveković is trained at the Polytechnic Institute and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

After his studies, he works in the office of Baron Karl von Hasenauer and then becomes the architect for the provincial government of Sarajevo, completing the Vijećnica (former town hall and currently the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina).

From 1896, Iveković is appointed architect in charge of religious buildings for the Dalmatian government in Zadar, where he leads numerous restoration projects of religious buildings. Also active as an archaeologist, conservator, restorer, and photographer, Iveković is a member of learned societies and heritage preservation associations.

After World War I, he becomes a professor of architecture at the technical high school in Zagreb and a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.