Zlatko Bourek: Sokol Loved Him

Sa？etak Zlatko Bourek was born and completed his secondary education in Osijek. At the suggestion of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, his home town awarded him its highest honour – the City of Osijek Lifetime Achievement Award – for his diverse artistic opus. The suggestion for this award was sent by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and this article contains the textual explanation for this suggestion. The text is complemented with typical illustrations from Bourek’s opus as a printmaker, painter, sculptor, doll maker, costume designer, animator, and theatre director. His work indicates his fascination with his Slavonian homeland, its plains and rivers, fish and boats, fervent challenges, luxurious feasts, and cruel tragedies. This is emphasised symbolically in the syntagm Sokol loved him, as the antithesis to Fabijan ？ovagovi？’s interpretation of the tragic Slavonian fate in the film Sokol Did Not Love Him