Ante Topić Mimara
Ante Topić Mimara (born April 7, 1898 in Koruščica , Austria-Hungary, today Croatia ; † January 30, 1987 in Zagreb ; born Ante Topić Matutin ) was a Yugoslav painter, art collector and art dealer.
After the First World War he went to Rome to train as a painter . Mimara then worked as a painter, restorer , art collector and art dealer. After the Second World War he worked at the Central Collecting Point in Munich , where he came into possession of works of art allegedly originating in Yugoslavia and stolen by the National Socialists . The art historian Wiltrud Mersmann , whom he married in 1957, helped him with this . Since 1963 he lived in Neuhaus Castle in Salzburg, which he acquired . In 1972 he bequeathed his entire collection to the Zagreb Mimara Museum, which is now named after him .
Web links
- Art collector: everyone serves . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1984, pp. 164–168 ( online - January 16, 1984 , Ante Topic-Mimara, who once brought Nazi art loot to Yugoslavia, considers the Republic of Croatia with a questionable collection).
- Konstantin Akinsha: Ante Topic Mimara, The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia . In: ARTnews September 2001.
- Walter Kemp: License to gather in Die Zeit No. 10, 2002, February 28, 2002.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Topić Mimara, Ante |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matutin, Ante Topić (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav painter, restorer, art collector, art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koruščica |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1987 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |