The collection includes around 2,000 everyday use items, made of wood and metal, originating from all parts of Croatia. Some exhibits were shaped with particular care and imagination - especially those made of wood, decorated with various (zoomorphic, anthropomorphic, geometrical, and religious) motifs, made in different techniques, such as carving, tallying, incrustation, turning, burning, and painting.

The collection also includes furniture made by local masters from mid 18th to the beginning of the 20th c., as well as small wooden objects that were, in some parts of the country, used well into the mid 20th c.

Metal objects include heaters and illumination devices (lamps, oil-lamps, torches), household weighing-machines, wall clocks, and small ttols usually kept by the fireplace or the heater, as well as metal food preparation objects (baking pots, kettles).

Paintings with predominantly religious motifs were made mostly by local authors, although the collection also includes works by major end 19th/beg. 20th c. artists inspired by folk motifs: Ivekovic, Martecchini, Tomerlin, Z. Sertic, and others.

OTON IVEKOVIC (1869.-1939.), painter.
Graduated from the Vienna Academy of Painting. As of 1908, taught at the Zagreb Academy of Visual Arts. He was mostly preoccupied by historical topics, painted in the academic "idealized realism" technique. Apart from that, he was also painting religious and genre motifs.

SLAVKO TOMERLIN (1892.-1981.), painter.
Attended the Prague Academy. In a somewhat embelished, yet realistic manner, he was painting landscapes and scenes from rural life with a strong folklore impression.

 


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