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25/2/2015

The Vugrinec collection

Art Pavilion in Zagreb, Zagreb

We are starting a new series of exhibitions in the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, brought together under the common title Private Collections in a Public Institution, with the presentation of one of the most attractive private collections of Croatian painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries, put together by the well-known Croatian footballer Davor Vugrinec. The collection of this sportsman, from Varazdin by birth, contains some of the most representative works of Croatian artists of Modernism. It starts with Nikola Masic, the first established home grown and yet regularly trained painter. Then it takes in some of the most important representatives of what is called the Zagreb Colourful School, Mato Celestin Medovic, Bela Cikos Sesia, Ivan Tisov, Ferdo Kovacevic and Oton Ivekovic. It goes on with select works of painters trained in Munich who brought Croatian modern art to the fullness of its expression: Miroslav Kraljevic, Vladimir Becic and Oskar Herman, and goes up to the Prague Four, represented by Milivoj Uzelac, Marijan Trepse and Vilko Gecan. All of these represent just the basic line of development. Works from the collection are regularly key exhibits at the big retrospective exhibitions mounted by the Art Pavilion, the Modern Gallery and Klovicevi dvori Gallery the leading exhibition venues in Croatia. Since this is clearly a collection that, attentively chosen, brings together the top works of the biggest domestic fine artists, making it a private collection to compete with those in Croatian museums, the Art Pavilion in Zagreb has chosen to start this series precisely with the Vugrinec Collection.

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