Original scientific paper
Đuro Griesbach's photographic palette in the 1950s and 1960s
Branka Hlevnjak
; Samostalni istraživač
Abstract
Đuro Griesbach (Sremska Mitrovica 25 Oct 1911 — Zagreb 27 March 1999) evolved as a photographer under the influence of »New Reality« in the 1930s. He was deeply inf luenced by his work for the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and arts on photographing cultural monuments in Croatia with dr. Artur Schneider, from 1930 to 1940. In the 1950s he became very active in promotion of Croatian tourism through photography and, along with his father Ljudevit Griesbach, remains the greatest master of picture postcards in Croatia. In the 1950s and 1960s, interested in the new world trends of photographic prints, casual portraits, abstraction and design, Griesbach explored the new photographic idiom, producing original and poignant photographs. His work helped innovate design photography. He raised a new generation of photographers, while he personally increasingly inclined towards photo-painting which in 1978 he exhibited in public under the title »The Story of A Tree«.
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Hrčak ID:
147930
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Publication date:
15.12.2000.
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