Franjo Gabrić completed primary school in Samobor and secondary education in Graz, where he passed the state examination at the Graz Technical University in 1902. He then worked at the Provincial Construction Office in Graz, contributing for more than a decade to the large hospital complex known as the Provincial Hospital of Graz. The ensemble shows the strong influence of Otto Wagner.
Gabrić left Graz at the end of 1918 and moved to Zagreb, where he headed the newly established construction service of the Medical Faculty on Šalata. In 1922 he joined the company Pionir.
From the mid-1930s he participated in major Zagreb residential and institutional projects. His work up to his death in 1941 aligns him with those architects who helped guide Croatian architecture from late Secession toward the modernism of the 1930s and early 1940s.
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Zagreb, Croatia
Foundation Block