Background
Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Batič was born in a working-class family in Trbovlje, a mining town in central Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
After World World War II, he was the first to enroll at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied sculpture under Boris Kalin and Frančišek Smerdu.
Mostly a figurative artist, he is particularly known for his sculptures exhibited in many public places in Slovenia. As a teenager, he worked in the local coal mine. At the age of 19, he joined the partisan resistance and fought the invading Nazi German forces.
In 1957, he received a scholarship, which enabled him to study in Paris with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine.
Batič lived and worked in Ljubljana. In 1995, he had a show at Ljubljana City Gallery.
In 2015, the Jakopič Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of his work under the title "The Manitoba and The Myth" (Človek in mit).