Naslov
Committee for Collection and Preservation of Cultural Monuments and Antiquities and Noble Families' Art Collections of Eastern Croatia

Autori
Lučevnjak, Silvija ; Najcer Sabljak, Jasminka

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

Skup
ART AND THE STATE IN MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE (18TH – 21ST CENTURY)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 30.06.2021. - 03.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Committee, Preservation of Cultural Monuments, Vladimir Tkalčić, Danica Pinterović, Noble Families' Art Collections of Eastern Croatia

Sažetak
In the period after World War II, the Committee for Collection and Preservation of Cultural Monuments and Antiquities, the so-called KOMZA (in Croatian: Komisija za sakupljanje i očuvanje kulturnih spomenika i starina), played an important role in the process of musealisation and redistribution, i.e. the transfer of artworks found in privately owned collections. KOMZA began to operate in mid- 1945, at the Ministry of Education of the Federal State of Croatia in Zagreb, although this authority only became a part of its formal establishment at the end of June. Professor Vladimir Tkalčić (1883 – 1971) was the Head of KOMZA, and KOMZA’s mode of operating was directly related to the sensitive issue of expropriation of private property. Shortly after KOMZA began to operate, it became clear there was also a lot of urgent work to be done outside of Zagreb, so for this purpose, the War Damage Commission (KOMRAT) and KOMZA went on to visit Hrvatsko zagorje. It was not until the summer of 1946 that KOMZA was able to establish a Commission that visited a large part of the Croatian Littoral and the islands of Krk and Rab. In the autumn of 1946 it went on to visit the territory of eastern Croatia. It was understandable that KOMZA’s centre in Zagreb could not cover the entire territory of Croatia on its own, so Regional Collection Centres were established in Osijek, Varaždin, Sušak, Zadar, and Šibenik. The Conservation Department in Split also participated in the work of collecting cultural monuments on the territory of Dalmatia. The members of KOMZA were primarily engaged in listing objects of artistic value belonging to sequestered or confiscated property, which were then transferred to KOMZA’s Regional Collection Centres or temporary preservation centres in Zagreb, and subsequently redistributed by the authorities to various museums and state institutions. When referring to the territory of present-day eastern Croatia, the activities of KOMZA are especially important. Numerous art collections of noble families from that region were salvaged, and partially stored in museums thanks to tremendous efforts of the staff of KOMZA’s Regional Collection Centre in Osijek. KOMZA’s main Collection Centre on the territory of Slavonia was located at the State Museum in Osijek (the present-day Museum of Slavonia), whose Head was Josip Bösendorfer (1876 – 1957). The person who had the most prominent role in the operation of this Collection Centre was the State Museum’s curator, Danica Pinterović, PhD (1897 – 1985). Under her leadership, KOMZA’s staff made a huge collective effort in salvaging, collecting, transporting, registering and storing art material from noble families’ art collections on the territory of present-day eastern Croatia. Due to their hard work, a significant and important part of our cultural heritage was preserved. However, numerous questions related to artwork provenance and relationship between culture and politics remain unanswered to this day.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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