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Sudac Collection
The Marinko Sudac Collection, based in Zagreb, Croatia, has been created with a clear collecting strategy based on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, additionally spanning from the Baltic area to the Black Sea. The guiding principle of the Collection is systematic exploration, researching, and promotion of the avant-garde practices which have been marginalized, forbidden, and at times completely negated due to the historical, social and political circumstances. In this context, the Marinko Sudac Collection gives the most complete and comprehensive overview on the art of this region. The Collection starts at 1909, and it show the continuity from the first Avant-Gardes, through neo-avant-garde and New Artistic Practices, ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The global uniqueness of the Marinko Sudac Collection is also seen in the kind of media it contains. It contains not only traditional artworks, such as paintings, sculptures, and photographs, but it gives equal import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 767,131. The population of the Zagreb urban agglomeration is 1,071,150, approximately a quarter of the total population of Croatia. Zagreb is a city with a rich history dating from Roman times. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Ščitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851 Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Croatian administrative division - it comprises a consolidated city-county (but separate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. He also served as the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 14 January 1953 until his death on 4 May 1980. He was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Davičo
Oskar Davičo ( sr-cyr, Оскар Давичо; 18 January 1909 — 30 September 1989) was a Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist and poet. A leading literary figure of his generation, he was one of the most acclaimed Serbian surrealist writers, but also a revolutionary socialist activist and a politician. Davičo was awarded prestigious literary NIN Award a record three times. Biography Early life Oskar Davičo was born on 18 January 1909 in Šabac to a Jewish family. His father was an atheist Jewish accountant and a socialist. During World War I in Serbia, Šabac was the scene of heavy fighting, so the whole family moved temporarily to Negotin. Interwar period Davičo finished the elementary school and lower gymnasium Šabac, and then continued his education at the First Belgrade Gymnasium in Belgrade. Davičo started to write poetry while in gymnasium. He was expelled from the gymnasium in 6th grade for criticizing religion in a self-published magazine. He later graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihailo S
Mihailo ( sr-cyr, Михаило) or Mihajlo () is a Serbian masculine given name, a variant of the Hebrew name ''Michael''. Common as a given name among Serbs, it is an uncommon surname. It may refer to: * Mihailo Vojislavljević (fl. 1050–d. 1081)), King of Duklja * Mihailo Ovčarević Mihailo Ovčarević ( sr-cyr, Михаило Овчаревић; 1550–79) was a Habsburg Serb ''vojvoda'' (commander) of the Šajkaši (river flotilla). Mihailo Ovčarević belonged to the Ovčarević family, a notable Serb family in Habsbur ... (fl. 1550–79), Habsburg Serb commander * Mihailo Đurić (b. 1925), Serbian philosopher, retired professor, and academic * Mihailo Janković (d. 1976), Serbian architect * Mihailo Jovanović (b. 1975), Serbian footballer * Mihailo Lalić (1914–1992), Montenegrin and Serbian novelist * Mihailo Marković (1927-2010), Serbian philosopher * Mihailo Merćep (1864–1937), Serb flight pioneer * Mihailo Obrenović (1823–1868), Prince of Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Ristić (surrealist)
Marko Ristić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Ристић; 20 June 1902 – 20 July 1984) was a Serbian surrealist poet, writer, publicist and ambassador. Early life Marko Ristić was born on 20 June 1902 in Belgrade. He studied in Belgrade, Kruševac and Switzerland before graduating in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. In 1922, he started the literary magazine ''Putevi'' (Ways) with Milan Dedinac and Dušan Timotijević. His first literary text ''Praštanje'' (Forgiveness) was printed in the second issue. In the summer of 1924, Ristić collaborated with Miloš Crnjanski to publish three new issues of ''Putevi''. The magazine featured Dušan Matić's articles on psychoanalysis, André Breton's proto-Surrealist essays and experimental poetry. Interwar period and Surrealism In the early 1920s Dušan Matić was studying in Paris where he monitored Dadaist events. From there, he sent Ristić copies of the magazine '' Littérature'' published by Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubomir Micić
Ljubomir Micić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Мицић, 15 November 1895 – 14 June 1971) was a Serbian poet, writer, critic, editor and actor. He was the founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism and its magazine ''Zenit''. Both he and his brother, Branko Ve Poljanski became prominent ''avant-garde'' artists. Biography He studied philosophy at University of Zagreb. He founded the review ''Zenit'', set up a Zenit Gallery and published his own writings and other authors under the Zenit imprint. Zenit was active from February 1921 until April 1924 in Zagreb, and afterward in Belgrade from 1924 until late 1926 with a total of 43 editions. The first artist to collaborate with Micić and to contribute to Zenit's orientation towards Expressionism was Vilko Gecan. Micić's Zenitism was supported by a small number of younger Yugoslav artists, namely Mihajlo Petrov, Vasa Pomorišac, Jovan Bijelić, Petar Dobrović, Ivan Radović. Micić worked on collecting and exhibiting avan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Klek
Josip Seissel (10 January 1904 – 19 February 1987) was a Croatian architect and urban planner, who under the pseudonym of Jo Klek was a constructivism (art), constructivist artist, graphical designer and theatrical designer. A member of the influential avant-garde Croatian art of the 20th century#Zenit, Zenit movement of the 1920s, he is considered to be a pioneer of surrealism and abstract art in Croatia. In 1969, he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in architecture. Biography Josip Seissel was born on January 10, 1904, in Krapina, then in Austria-Hungary, now Croatia. Under the name Jo Klek, Seissel was a major contributor to the avant-garde Zenit movement between 1922 and 1925. From his youth, Seissel had been interested in the theatre. He began as a self-taught artist creating drawings, temperas, watercolours and theatrical designs for Zenit productions, including set designs, costumes and posters. From 1921 he began using the pseudonyms Jo Klek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janko Polić Kamov
Janko Polić Kamov (; 17 November 1886 – 8 August 1910) was a Croatian writer and poet. Although his literary corpus is small due to his short life, he is considered a significant writer in Croatian literature, emblematic of the contemporary anger and displeasure over hypocrisy and injustice of his time. His ''magnum opus'' is considered to be his modernist novel ''Isušena kaljuža'' ("A Dried Mire", 1906–1909), which contains the psychosexual and spiritual conflicts of the iconoclastic narrator, later described as proto-existentialist. The novel, described as the premier Croatian avant-garde major work of prose, was printed for the first time in 1956, nearly 46 years after Polić Kamov's death. Because of that he earned a reputation as one of the greatest rebels and iconoclasts in the history of Croatian culture. Biography He was born in Sušak, Rijeka on 17 November 1886, the thirteenth of fourteen children born to and Gemma (). Polić's father, Ante, was from a prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Matić
Dušan Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Матић; 31 August 1898 – 12 September 1980) was a Serbian poet who was active as part of the Belgrade surrealist group. Biography Early life Dušan Matić was born on 31 August 1898 in Ćuprija. His father was a civil servant from Jagodina, and his mother was from Kruševac. Due to his father's occupation, the Matić family moved frequently, spending time in Pirot, Čačak, Niš and Šabac. Just as he had started attending school in Šabac in 1912, the First Balkan War erupted. His family home was destroyed in the early days of World War I, after which the Matić family moved to Kruševac to stay with the family of Dušan's mother. At the age of 16, Matić published his first poetry in the Serbian Social Democratic Party aligned ''Radničke novine'' (The Workers' Journal) under the ''nom de plume'' Uroš Jovanović. In 1915, Matić followed his father in the Great Retreat, eventually departing from Durrës. Moving from Messina t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Aleksić
Dragan Aleksić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Алексић, 22 December 1901 – 22 July 1958) was a Serbian Dadaist poet, author, journalist and filmmaker. He was the founder of the Yugoslavian branch of Dadaism, termed "Yugo-Dada". Born in a village in the region of Lika, Aleksić first published his poetry in several Zagreb-based youth magazines. During his year of studies in Prague in 1920, he came into contact with then leading European Dadaists such as Kurt Schwitters and Tristan Tzara. In 1921, he met with Branko Ve Poljanski, the brother of Zenitist leader Ljubomir Micić, and collaborated with the two on several projects for a year. After his personal and artistic break with Poljanski in 1922, Aleksić published the two single issue Dadaist publications ''Dada Tank'' and ''Dada Jazz'' in Zagreb, while Poljanski published a parody of Dada called ''Dada-Jok''. Aleksić gathered a circle of Dadaists with whom he participated in several "Dadaist Matinées". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada Tank
The cover of ''Dada Tank'' from June 1922. ''Dada Tank'' was a Yugoslav Dadaist single issue publication published in Zagreb in June 1922 and edited by Dragan Aleksić. Aleksić published ''Dada Tank'' as a response to Branko Ve Poljanski and his brother Ljubomir Micić's anti-Dada publication ''Dada-Jok'' from May 1922. Background After falling out with the representative of Dada in Yugoslavia, Dragan Aleksić, the Zenitism, Zenitists Branko Ve Poljanski Branko Ve Poljanski (pseudonym of Branislav Micić, 22 October 1898, Sošice - 14 January, 1947, Recloses, France ) was a Serb poet and painter active in the Serbo-Croat avant-garde. He was the co-founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism an ... and Ljubomir Micić published an anti-Dada single issue publication in May 1922 called ''Dada-Jok''. Through a skillful, reflexive parody of the movement, the editor Poljanski sought to expose Dada's limits as an artistic and spiritual current, proposing Zenitism in its stead. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Ve Poljanski
Branko Ve Poljanski (pseudonym of Branislav Micić, 22 October 1898, Sošice - 14 January, 1947, Recloses, France ) was a Serb poet and painter active in the Serbo-Croat avant-garde. He was the co-founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism and its magazine ''Zenit''. Biography He was born Branislav Micić in Austro-Hungarian Empire's part of nowadays Croatia. Both he and his brother, Ljubomir Micić became prominent avant-garde artists. Branko qualified as teacher in Zagreb and moved to Ljubljana where he founded ''Svetokret'' journal in 1921. He then moved first to Vienna and then Berlin, where he got involved with ''Der Sturm'', the Avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ... magazine published by Herwarth Walden. He married a French woman, with whom h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
