Five Private Jewish Art Collections and their Fate during the Independent State of Croatia and after its Collapse

Abstract

The author focuses on the private collections of Jewish families in Zagreb mentioned in the Report on the Implementation of the Legal Prohibition of Alienation and Removal of Artworks, Cultural, Historical and Natural Monuments in the Independent State of Croatia compiled by Božidar Murgić in July 1941. The article intends to investigate the fate of confiscated collections or individual works of art, and tries to reconstruct the former content and scope of these collections and present the collecting interests of the Zagreb collectors mentioned in the Report.

Keywords

• private collections of Zagreb Jewish families
• Independent State of Croatia
• Božidar Murgić
• Museum of Arts and Crafts
• Milan Marić
• Artur Marić