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%T Following the Tracks of the Art Collection of Dr. Hermann Weissmann with Reference to the Works in the Museum of Slavonia
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%D 2020
%X Sa£¿etak Hermann Weissmann (1884-1943 (?)), a lawyer and collector from Osijek, Croatia donated one part of his collection to the Museum of Slavonia and stored another part of it in the Museum during World War II. The collection consisted of his family library, a numismatic collection, and a collection of paintings and graphics. He created his art collection in two locations ¨C in the clerk¡¯s office at 9 Radi£¿eva Street and in his home at 4 Gaj Square. Today, it is divided between the heritage institutions of Osijek ¨C the Museum of Fine Arts, the State Archives, and the Museum of Slavonia. The provenance research of the Collection of Paintings and Frames of the Department of Arts and Crafts has identified seven artworks as part of the collection of Hermann Weissmann. It was based on the documentation preserved in the Documentary Collection of the History Department of the Museum of Slavonia and in the database in the State Archives in Osijek. In the context of exploring Dr. Weissmann¡¯s art legacy, his library, which reveals his interest in both art history and art topics, is also a very valuable source of information. Hermann Weissmann was born in Virovitica, Croatia in 1884 in a Jewish merchant family. In Osijek, in the early 1920s, he opened a law practice and started a family. He was a prominent public and cultural employee in the city of Osijek. With the outbreak of World War II, as a prominent Jew, Dr. Weissmann disappeared from public life. Together with his most immediate family, he was deported to the Tenja camp near Osijek in 1942, from where the Jews from Osijek were sent by train to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He tried to save his life by donating his collections ¨C the library, numismatics, and the collection of Croatian painters, as mentioned earlier, to the municipality (i.e. city) of Osijek. A record with a list of pictures and books not intended for donation, but listed as a legacy in the lawyer¡¯s office in Radi£¿eva Street and in the apartment in Gaj Square, was preserved. The paintings and graphics are listed according to the rooms in which they are located; in four rooms in the clerk¡¯s office, in two rooms on the ground floor of the apartment, and in two rooms on the floor of the apartment, a total of 34 pictures in the clerk¡¯s office (oils, graphics, sketches) and 29 pictures (oils, watercolors) in the apartment. There were mostly graphics and drawings in the office, among which the oeuvre of Hugo Conrad H£¿tzendorf stands out, as well as the works of Vladimir Filakovac and Josip Zorman, while the cycle of 12 engravings of the old
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