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Transfers of the Paintings of Painter Joannes Esenhart from The Old Zagreb Cathedral
Bartol Fabijanić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-7423
; Strossmayerova galerija starih majstora Hrvatske akademije znanosti umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Author discusses fate of Joannnes Eisenhart’s paintings that originally had been placed in the baroque altars of Blessed Virgin Mary and St Ladislaus in the Zagreb Cathedral. These altars after the earthquake of 1880 were moved away. During the turbulent and dynamic twentieth century these two altars, together with the paintings, witnessed many relocations, changed owners, and endured physical fragmentations and adaptations. Due to the given circumstances many of the paintings – especially those from the altar of the Blessed Virgin – were lost. Moreover, because of these losses we today cannot recognize and reconstruct the original context and meaning for many of the preserved pictures. Still, on the basis of the archival and museum documentation a part of the story about four pictures from the Blessed Mary’s altar can be reconstructed. These paintings presently are kept within Strossmayer’s Gallery of Old Masters in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Academy has bought these pictures from Gustav (Deutsch) Maceljski, who was wealthy industrialist and merchant living in Zagreb. Analysis of the preserved documents enabled author to reconstruct a part of their historical path. Moreover, the analysis revealed some of the protagonists, who directly or indirectly participated in the transfer of these artworks, which consequently in 1950 led to the musealization of these four Joannes Eisenhart’s paintings. One of less known protagonists, in the process of musealization of a side image from the Blessed Mary’s altar that ended in the Diocesan museum at Kaptol, was Georg (Đuro) Schmee, a German merchant who lived in Zagreb. His role within trading scene of art pieces is rather well documented in documents that are kept in various archival institutions in Zagreb and abroad. Therefore, author has examined Schmee’s role in the processes of transfers, translocations and musealization of various art pieces in the period before, during and immediately after the World War II, especially regarding the fact that in this period general attitude towards cultural and art heritage was changed several times.
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Hrčak ID:
254193
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Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2020.
Posjeta: 725 *