Grgo Gamulin (21 August 1910 – 2 October 1997) was a Yugoslav art historian, literary critic, writer born in
Jelsa on the island of
Hvar. Gamulin graduated from the
University of Zagreb in 1935 and lectured there in 1947–1971. He is a co-founder of the Art History Institute of the University of Zagreb and multiple journals (''Ars 37'', ''Radovi Odsjeka za povijest umjetnosti'' ("Works of the Art History Department", ''Život umjetnosti'' ("Life of Art")). Gamulin ranks among the forerunners of the Croatian contemporary art history. He published several novels and plays and translated Italian and French poetry.
During the
Croatian Spring
The Croatian Spring ( hr, Hrvatsko proljeće), or Maspok, was a political conflict that took place from 1967 to 1971 in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. As one of six republic ...
, among many others, Gamulin was accused of stirring up
Croatian nationalist views.
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1910 births
1997 deaths
People from Hvar
Yugoslav art historians
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Yugoslav literary critics
Yugoslav translators