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https://doi.org/10.22586/csp.v56i2.34194
Ivan Meštrović in Ljubljana, 1903/1904: Proposals for two Monuments and Participation in a Hagenbund Exhibition Organised by the Ljubljana Casino Society
Beti Žerovc
; Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenija
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In the second half of 1902, in Vienna, Ivan Meštrović started establishing connections with his Slovenian peers, with whom he founded the Slovenian-Croatian student artists’ society Vesna in 1903. It was probably in this circle that Meštrović became acquainted with two projects in Ljubljana, in which he participated in 1903 and 1904: the competition for the monument to Franz Joseph I and the preparations for erecting the monument to Jurij Vega.
In 1903, Meštrović took part in a competition launched by the Ljubljana municipality for a monument to commemorate the Emperor’s aid and visit to the city after the earthquake of 1895. Nine sculptors participated, their designs being exhibited at the end of 1903 in Ljubljana’s Mestni dom (Municipal House). The jury awarded the first prize to Svetoslav Peruzzi’s draft titled Tribute, while the third prize was bestowed on the then twenty-year-old Ivan Meštrović for his design Earthquake.
It was presumably in the middle of 1904 that he also created a plaster model for a monument to the mathematician and physicist Jurij Vega, which was supposed to have been put up in Ljubljana, but never was.
It is almost certain that the Vesna Society did not encourage Meštrović to participate in the Hagenbund group exhibition in the autumn of 1904, organised by the Ljubljana Casino Society (Kazina). In the first decade of the 20th century, the latter carried out, among other things, an ambitious art programme and hosted many exhibitions by prominent art societies from Graz and Vienna. During this period, the Slovenian patriots in Carniola mostly perceived the Ljubljana Casino Society as one of the provincial centres of German-oriented culture in the framework of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and therefore ignored and rejected it. It is true that the exhibition took place after Meštrović’s break-up with the Vesna Society, but it is nevertheless interesting that Ljubljana Casino Society’s German orientation did not bother the young sculptor enough to prevent him from exhibiting there. We can speculate that for Meštrović, this may also have been a way of presenting his Vega monument design to the broader Carniolan public, as it was being planned without any competition.
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31.12.2024.
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