Professional paper
FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION TO MUSEUM COLLECTION: THE PURCHASE OF THE GRAPHIC COLLECTION OF THE COLLECTOR EDVIN ŠMIT FOR THE COLLECTION OF GRAPHIC ART OF THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
Anđelka Galić
; Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb
Antonia Došen
; Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb
Abstract
The Graphic Art Collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts
was augmented in 2012 by more than nine hundred new
objects, by purchase of the collection of the architect Edvin
Šmit. With this purchase, the museum collection that covers
examples of the art of the print from the Renaissance to this
day was greatly enriched with a well-rounded selection of
Croatian graphic art of the 20th and 21st century.
An impassioned collector whose love for graphic art was
practically the same as that which he nourished for his own
professional choice, architecture, Edvin Šmit in his endeavours,
systematic collection and careful recording of each
separate print that he brought, formed a considerable collection
dominated by prints created since the 1950s, including
the most recent creations of the youngest generation of artists
present in the Croatian printmaking scene.
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174245
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Publication date:
3.2.2015.
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