“Zagreb-Munich” Exhibition Opens in November

“Zagreb-Munich”, a great exhibition scheduled to open in late November at the Art Pavilion, will feature works by great Croatian painters, students and professors of the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, who studied and worked there at the turn of the 19th century.

A great exhibition entitled “Zagreb-Munich” is scheduled to open in late November. The exhibition will feature works by renowned Croatian painters, former students of the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the same one which marked the 200th anniversary of its work last year by staging another great exhibition. The exhibition at the Art Pavilion will present some 100 works by Croatian painters, former students of the Munich Academy, as well as some dozen works by their professors – who are less well known not only to the general public but experts alike. The works on display were all created between 1870 and 1920. During that period, the Munich Academy of Fine Arts gathered students from all over Europe and even America, and among them were also quite a few Croatians who went on to become great Croatian masters. In addition to the famous “Munich Four” - Josip Račić, Vladimir Becić, Oskar Herman and Miroslav Kraljević, who were known in contemporary fine arts circles as the “Croatian School”, visitors will have an opportunity to see the works of all the other Croatian graduates of the Munich Academy - Izidor Kršnjavi, Ferdinand Quiquerez, Josip Bauer, Nikola Mašić, Anton Aron, Dragan Melkus, Hugo Lukšič, Marko Murat, Mato Celestin Medovič, Menci Klement Crnčić, Bela Čikoš Sesija, Oton Ivekovič, Ivan Tišov, Robert Auer and Ljubo Babić.
The representative display of Croatian painters will be reinforced by the works of their professors: Karl von Piloty, Wilhelm Diez, Wilhelm Lindenschmit, Nicolaus Gysis, Wilhelm Leibl, Ludwig Löfftz, Gabriel Max, Hugo von Habermann and Franz von Stuck.