Today we classify Josip Franja Muecke in the so-called the Osijek painting circle, a group of portrait and landscape artists who worked in Osijek and Slavonia during the 19th century.
This group of painters is also the first autochthonous painting group on home soil. This monograph introduces us to the brilliant paintings of Josip Franja Muecke.
Translation
Željko Lišner
Illustrations
Igor Brzoja, Srećko Budek, Miroslav Dvoršćak, Mitja Koman, Aleksandar Korka, Marin Topić, Füzi Istvan, Mester Tibor, Nador Katalin
In the Zagreb "painting colony" from the end of the nineteenth century, Ferdo Kovačević (besides Auer) was the only one born in Zagreb, so the "genius loci" of the melancholic Posavina plain had a stronger effect on his sensibility...
Društvo povjesničara umjetnosti SR Hrvatske, 1986.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.