The Challenge of Modernity. Zagreb - Vienna Around 1900

Klovicevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

Two works from the Infeld Collection become a part from the exhibition in “Klovicevi dvori”: the “Study for a lady Portrait”, a pencil drawing from Gustav Klimt, and the “Allegorical Figure”, an oil on canvas work from Koloman Moser. 

The exhibition presents 100 key works of Austrian and Croatian artists who formed a new artistic expression in painting, sculpture, architecture and applied arts within the European fin-de-siècle at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. The exhibition features the most significant protagonists of the Vienna Secession, such as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and others, who influenced with their work the young generation of Croatian artists (Vlaho Bukovac, Ivan Mestrovic) and architects (Vjekoslav Bastl, Viktor Kovacic) who transferred the secession style from its centre, Vienna, to Zagreb.  

The exhibition in the Klovicevi dvori Gallery in Zagreb is to be the central cultural event in the year of friendship between the Republics of Austria and Croatia; it enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Zagreb, and will be held under the patronage of Mrs Kolinda Grabar – Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia.