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THE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY OF LJUDEVIT GRIESBACH (1914-1945)
Branka Hlevnjak
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The croatian firm "Griesbach and Knaus" were the best known and largest publishers of picture postcards in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and they were active longer than any other firm in that period, from 1927 to 1945 - continuing to work with the State Archive Photograph Service even after 1945. From this firm's negatives picture postcards continued to be printed even after 1945. In the Sixties they were placed at the National and University Library in Zagreb. In the great theft in the Eighties this collection was halved, and part of it was transferred back to the State Archives. Today eorts are made to put together what remains of this Now the Griesbach and Knaus Collection of Negatives which consists of 1580 negatives is part of the Croatian Archive's Photograph Service in Zagreb. The authors of the photographs are Ljudevit Griesbach and his son Đuro Griesbach who made 32 negatives. All the negatives were numbered while the firm was still active (1927-1945) with reference to locality, year and technical data relating to the actual takes. The collection comprises motifs from 122 towns, villages and monuments on the territory of the entire former Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Ljudevit Griesbach was one of the most notable photographers in the period of the Croatian Moderna. For him photography is a medium transmitting personal experience and creating eects that should inspire the viewer regardless of its place of publication: in print, in an exhibition or on picture postcards. He chooses motifs for their beauty, and whenever possible prefers large and impressive vistas. He is particularly competent photographing landscapes, which seem thematically closest to his sensibility. But, regardless of their theme, including lyrical impressions as well as cosmopolitan ambiences, the photographs of Ljudevit Griesbach are representative examples of the modem spirit.
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153840
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.1994.
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