The Bust of Jim Morrison in Paris (Sculptor Mladen Mikulin)

An interview between rock-critic and art-historian Darko Glavan and Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin (Croatian Radio-Television HRT 1996), who made the famous marble bust of Jim Morrison in 1981 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Jim's death.
The legendary frontman of The Doors was Mikulin's greatest inspiration when he was just a young sculptor in search for artistic freedom. He speaks about his administrative troubles when he asked for the license to place the bust and the new grave-stone with Morrison's name on the tomb. He said his motive for intervention on Jim's grave (Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris) those days was a fact that visitors there just looked into empty hole between the others tombstones. He thought that was not appropriate. Devastated through the years by the cemetery vandals, the sculpture was at Jim's grave until spring of 1988, when it was stolen without a trace, which was very sad day for the sculptor. Mikulin later made two more Morrison's portraits (last one in bronze in 2001).
Mladen Mikulin was born in 1958. He graduated in 1986 from the sculpture department of the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb. Today he lives in Vukovina near Zagreb, Croatia.

Cemetery cool and quiet
Hate to leave your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day
I´d love to stay...

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[DoorsFanCroatia]

Sad news! Yesterday evening Darko Glavan, the best Croatian rock-critic, was tragically killed after Santana concert in Varazdin. RIP!

[normandie2005]

7.7.1981:

flickr.com/photos/puppenspiele­r/5264516522

LG

normandie2005/Horst

[runirvana]

TOOOO :):):)

fala

:)

[sexxiimotherfukah]

what an honor

[JLizard]

It wasn't David Logan, me, Gerald Pitts or about a dozen others who knew Jim in video and said it could be him.

[ultravioletfears]

I bought the dvd and talked to someone who visited the "cowboy" that isn't jim.

[znatizeljac]

a bas san vidila, bas nekako tuzno!

:(

[MSK2232]

Covece hrvat napravio skulpturo kako cool

[mirver77]

They also say that it was a heavy bust, something like 276 pounds or 138 kilos and that they had some problems with the French Border Patrol because of the weight.

[JLizard]

Really nice interview and it was sad that statue got stolen. Please know that Jim Morrison is alive and living in the United States of America as seen in my youtube videos. I also think that he has an affinity for Croatian people like us.