(b Zagreb, 8 April 1870; d 1 Sept 1927). Croatian painter. After graduating from the School of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, he studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. On his return to Zagreb he became one of the founder-members of the Society of Croatian Artists (Drustvo Hrvatskih Umjetnika) in 1897 and the Croatian Salon (Hrvatski Salon). He was a teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, from 1905 onwards and at the Academy from 1913. Along with Menci Clement Crncic, he was one of the most prominent landscape painters in the circle of Zagreb artists gathered round the painter Vlaho Bukovac at the end of the 19th century. Kovacevic painted a great number of landscapes in oil and watercolour, which were directly inspired by the surroundings of Zagreb, e.g. Willows (1917; Zagreb, Gal. Mod. A.), Dusk (c. 1912; Zagreb, Manucci priv. col.) and Winter on the River Sava (1920; Islington, Ont., Herak priv. col.). Brown tints predominate in his earlier work, but later his range of colours became much brighter. His plein-air paintings gradually approached an Impressionist style.