Zagreb Art Pavilion

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The art pavilion as seen from King Tomislav Square
Back of the building

The Art Pavilion ( Croatian Umjetnički paviljon ) is an international art and exhibition hall for contemporary art founded in 1898 in the lower town of Zagreb .

history

The idea of ​​a public art hall for Zagreb was first introduced in the spring of 1895 a. a. formulated by the Croatian painter Vlaho Bukovac . Building on this idea, it was decided to show the works of Croatian artists at the Budapest Millennium Exhibition in 1896 in a prefabricated pavilion so that it could then be more easily transported to Zagreb after the exhibition. The original pavilion was built according to plans by the Budapest architects Kálmán Giergl and Flóris Korb .

After the exhibition, the iron skeleton structure was transferred to Zagreb and rebuilt under the direction of the architects Fellner & Helmer . The exterior of the building was decorated with sculptures by various artists: the east facade shows busts of three Renaissance painters of Dalmatian descent: Vittore Carpaccio , Giulio Clovio and Andrea Schiavone ; the west facade shows busts of Michelangelo , Raphael and Titian . When it opened on December 15, 1898, the pavilion was one of the first completely prefabricated structures in Europe.

The art pavilion has an exhibition area of ​​600 m² but no permanent collections. In 2006 the glass roof of the pavilion was renovated and the lighting system replaced, and renovation work has been in progress on the entire facade since 2010.

Exhibitions (selection)

To this day, the art pavilion organizes around 700 BC. a. retrospective exhibitions by Croatian and international artists such as Käthe Kollwitz , Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin . The exhibitions in recent years have included works by artists such as Gilles Aillaud , Edo Kovačević , Gerhard Richter and Milivoj Uzelac , as well as group exhibitions by artists such as Santiago Sierra and Boris Mikhailov , Karl von Piloty , Nikolaos Gyzis , Gabriel von Max and Franz von Stuck .

literature

  • Dubravko Horvatić; Milan Babić: Zagreb and its surroundings , Mate, Zagreb, 1995
  • Michael Benedikt , Damir Barbarić: Ambivalence of the fin de siècle: Vienna-Zagreb , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 1998
  • Olga Maruševski: The Art Pavilion in Zagreb: 1896–1898 , magazine of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Zagreb, 2000
  • Bruno Sušanj: Zagreb , Masmedia, Zagreb, 2004
  • Uwe Mauch: Zagreb: The Croatian Capital and Its Surroundings , Trescher Verlag , Berlin, 2011, p. 113 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Zagreb Art Pavilion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zagreb Art Pavilion. Zagreb Tourist Community, 2011, accessed January 13, 2013 .


Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′ 26 "  N , 15 ° 58 ′ 43"  E