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Damir Simic
Damir Simic (born 20 March 1966) is an Croatian artist and art collector. Although he always showed a tendency toward art in his youth, he never dreamt that his affinity would become more than just a boyhood hobby. Only in his later life he allowed his deeply suppressed vocation to emerge to the surface. With 36 he realised  that he was actually  young enough to start afresh. He returned to school and began a new career as a professional artist in his late thirties. In 2006 he graduated from the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.

"Damir came to Italy, to study at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, in 2003. This began a new and brilliant chapter in his life, and, after three years of intensive study, he has gone on to become one of the leading painters in the New Realism movement in Europe", said Michael John Angel director of Angel Art Academy in Florence, Italy.