Antun Bauer (art historian)

Antun Bauer (born August 18, 1911 in Vukovar ; † April 9, 2000 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav art historian, collector and museologist.

Bauer attended elementary school in Vukovar and grammar school in Osijek , and received his doctorate in 1935 from the University of Vienna . From 1936 to 1945 he worked as an assistant and lecturer at the University of Zagreb .

In 1937 Bauer founded the Zagreb Glyptothek (with casts of ancient sculptures). From 1952 to 1968 he headed the school museum in Zagreb and in 1964 he founded the “Muzejski dokumentacioni centar” (Museum Documentation Center) in Zagreb, which he headed until 1976. In 1949 and 1951, he organized, among other exhibitions, the exhibition on Yugoslavian art of the Middle Ages in Paris and Zagreb. One of his main merits is the rescue of the equestrian statue from Ban Jelačić Square in the basement of the Zagreb Glyptotheque.

literature

• Pavo Barišić: Memorial days in Croatia as a medium of storytelling , in: Emil Brix , Hannes Stekl (ed.): The battle for memory. Public memorial days in Central Europe. Böhlau Verlag Wien-Graz 1997, especially p. 341

Web links

• Detailed curriculum vitae of the museologist
• The Struggle for Memory , Google Books. From Emil Brix , Hannes Stekl (Ed.)