Career
Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years, and did not begin painting until 1956, when he was thirty-five years old. He had little formal training as an artist, but his first exhibition of paintings proved successful and he changed careers, becoming a professional painter in 1962. Rabuzin"s paintings included Avenue and My Homeland.
He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Rabuzin decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker"s Studio Linie.
Rabuzin died 18 December 2008 in a hospital in Varazdin, Croatia.