Željko Lapuh was born on May 27, 1951 in Split. He finished elementary school
and high school in Zagreb, and in 1976 he graduated in painting at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Šime Perić. Since then, he has
been a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU ) and works in the
art life of Croatia as an independent artist.
In the period from 1976 to 1980, he was a collaborator in the Master
Workshop of Ljubo Ivančić and Nikola Reiser.
In 2004, he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
He has exhibition at about forty solo and over two hundred group exhibitions
at home and abroad. He has won many awards for painting, of which the Grand
Prix of the Zagreb Salon 1993 stands out, and for special merits in Croatian
culture, he was awarded the order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko
Marulić.
The works of Željko Lapuh can be found in galleries and museums, as well as in
numerous private collections in the country and abroad.