The Museum of Fine Arts (Croatian: Muzej likovnih umjetnosti) is an art museum in Osijek, Croatia. It was established in 1954. The history of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Osijek is closely connected to the Museum of Slavonia, from which the collections that later became the starting point for the gallery were detached. Those holdings were established by taking over collections from the bequest of the nobility in the Osijek region; already then counting almost 500 pieces, amongst them many of high European quality. However, the need to be extracted and presented to the public appeared, and in 1948 J. Bösendorfer made the first individual exhibition in a gallery-sense out of the existing material, and mounted it in a building at 24, European Avenue in Osijek. But however, the duration of this exhibition, authored by Josip Leović, was short lived and after only five months all of the exhibits were returned to the museum, since the exhibition area was needed for other purposes. The collections stayed within the holdings of the Museum of Slavonia up until 1952, when rooms are released in the former building of the county, opposite to the Croatian National Theatre. That gallery was designed upon the museum concept of Zdenka Munk and the exhibition was mounted by the artists J. Leović and J. Gojković; and being of a representative character, presented to the Osijek public an institution of a high cultural range. In 1954 the collections are formally detached from the Museum of Slavonia with its first director, the artist Jovan Gojković. Even before that the gallery had published its first catalogue in 1953, drawn up by J. Gojković. More information...
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