Janko Domsic

Croatia, 1915-1983

Little is known about Janko Domsic’s life or the circumstances of his arrival in France. He spent some time in prison and, in 1935, worked on the construction of a railway line. In Paris, where he lived in precarious conditions, Domsic drew and wrote with colored pencils, ballpoint pens and markers. His drawings contain numerous texts in French and some in Croatian and German. With the exception of a few references to his personal life, Nazi songs and religious texts, his vocabulary essentially refers to mystical ideas, the Freemasons’ moral code and economic issues. Its figures, extended to the limit in lines that unite and form labyrinths, are decorated with pentagrams, swastikas and hyphens.