Naslov
The Musealization of Artworks in Croatia in the Aftermath of the Second World War

Autori
Fabijanić, Bartol

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
International Conference Art and the State in Modern Central Europe (18th – 21st Century). Programme and Book of Abstracts / Alviž, Josipa ; Damjanović, Dragan ; Magaš Bilandžić, Lovorka ; Miklošević, Željka ; Nestić, Jasmina ; Počanić, Patricia ; Walton, Jeremy F. - Zagreb : Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb FF Press, 2021, 68-68

ISBN
978-953-175-914-4

Skup
International Conference Art and State in Modern Central Europe (18th – 21st Century)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 30.06.2021. - 03.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
artworks, musealization, World War 2, KOMZA

Sažetak
Through various musealization processes, an abundance of artistic material that was excluded from former privately-owned art collections entered Croatian museums in the first couple of years after the end of the Second World War. What was known as the state-organized theft of private property, including artworks belonging to Jews and other victims of persecution under the Ustasha regime during the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945), was by the end of the war replaced by the newly introduced measures of the new socialist state. These measures included legal mechanisms which enabled the sequestration of previously dispossessed private property (together with artworks and other object of cultural significance), and confiscation, expropriation, and nationalization, which targeted so-called national enemies of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia – former fascist and Nazi collaborators, noble and rich families, and other personae non gratae. Based on these newly implemented legal measures, an array of committees and state bodies were introduced, whose task was to deal with the musealization of the artworks in the immediate postwar period. The aim of this paper is to show how the new socialist state developed cultural policies through these state bodies and other legal mechanisms, which finally led to the distribution of artworks from former private ownership into state-owned museums and other public institutions. Also, it will be shown how the redistribution processes resulted in the dispersion and fragmentation of previously integrated private art collections, and

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti

Napomena
The work of the PhD student is funded from the
„Project of the career development of young
researchers – education of new PhD students” of
the Croatian Science Foundation finance by the
EU from the European Social Fund
The work has been fully supported by the
Croatian Science Foundation under the project
IP-2020-02-1356 Provenance Research on Artwork
in Zagreb
Collections (ZagArtColl_ProResearch).

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