Original scientific paper
Author Ceramics in Zagreb Interiors of the Interwar Period
Marina Bagarić
; Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb
Abstract
First Croatian ceramic artists, educated in Zagreb and abroad, were active on Zagreb’s art scene during the 1920s and the 1930s. Numerous painters and sculptors became interested in ceramics, and the 1927 exhibition of the Association for the Promotion of Arts and Crafts Djelo (Djelo – Udruženje za promicanje umjetničkoga obrta) exhibited their artwork for the first time: ceramic sculptures, decorative pottery, fireplace screens. The numerosity of artists and the diversity of exhibited items testify to the popularity of ceramics in the said period. However, what could guarantee a permanent interest for ceramics in the artistic life of the city were buyers and collectors, but also a continuing emergence of new, young ceramic artists. The realization of the latter was mostly due to the sculptor, ceramic artist and art educator Hinko Juhn, while the former was greatly facilitated by architects interested in ceramics. During the interwar period, the generation of architects – modernists active in the Art Nouveau era (Hugo Ehrlich, Aladar Baranyai) were inclined to consider ceramics a mobile decoration of the interior, while the younger generation of modernist architects of the 1930s took into consideration the functional aspect of ceramics as well. Artists who actively collaborated with Zagreb-based architects were Hinko Juhn, Lujo Bezeredi, Marta Plazzeriano, Blanka Dužanec and Stella Skopal. The most achieved harmony in interior furnishings was realized by Stella Skopal and by the architectural studio Kauzlarić & Gomboš.
Keywords
ceramics; architecture; interior; decorativeness; functionality; interwar modernism
Hrčak ID:
136382
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Publication date:
17.3.2015.
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