Ivan Gjurcek

Ivan "Cobra" Gjurcek was born in May, 1947. in Zagreb, Croatia (in that time, part of Ex-Yugoslavia). Early at primary school he showed great skill, that many would envy him on, in arts and drawing, achieving top grades.

But it was not until 1968. that he got his first works published, as a part of "Pop Drawing '69." contest. It was a contest in a local music magazine "Dzuboks" ("Jukebox"), consisted in drawing Mick Jagger's and afterwards Julie Driscoll's portraits, where he won second prize. In the meantime, he graduated as an Architect and soon get a job as an Engineer Architect, but continued to work on his artistic side in a free time, more as a hobby.

His first nude woman drawings series were done in 1971., and a year later, he got some of these works published in a popular Yugoslavian men's magazine "Magazin" (sort of a "Playboy" thing). That year, he got some recognition and was nicknamed as "Yugoslavian Aslan" by the editors in that very same magazine. He continued his work on nude series and in 1988. he got his works and short comics published in another popular local magazine "Erotika". Two years later, the war in Croatia started, and the drawings in "Erotika" were the last ones of Ivan's art to be publ...

Architect, retired.,