Zagreb - Croatia's best-known sculptor Dusan Dzamonja died of diabetes at the age of 81 on Wednesday morning in Zagreb, media reports said.

Dzamonja, one of the former Yugoslavia's greatest modern artists, was famous for his colossal monuments to the partisan struggle during the World War Two.

His works showed a tendency toward experiments, his style was modern and very expressionistic with intense shapes and symbolical meaning and the use of nails, steel and glass in sculptures.

Dzamonja, who was born in 1928 in Macedonia, held more than 100 exhibitions and his sculptures were shown in Paris, Lisbon, London and Brussels. (dpa)