ZAGREB, Feb 25 (Hina) - In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Institute, the Varazdin City Museum has hosted an unusual exhibition: cemeteries in crown countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The exhibition shows some
forty white-and-black photographs of old, partially abandoned cemeteries in countries of the former Habsburg empire, a Varazdin weekly reports. The cemeteries shown are located in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia. The author, Cristoph Ling, is a photographer and travel journalist working with the international photography centre in New York. Critic Susanne Schaber wrote a text accompanying the photographs, describing burial rites and cemetery cults in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Moslem religions in the former monarchy. The exhibition will be open until March.(hina) lml
ZAGREB, Feb 25 (Hina) - In cooperation with the Austrian Cultural
Institute, the Varazdin City Museum has hosted an unusual
exhibition: cemeteries in crown countries of the former Austro-
Hungarian Monarchy.
The exhibition shows some forty white-and-black photographs of
old, partially abandoned cemeteries in countries of the former
Habsburg empire, a Varazdin weekly reports.
The cemeteries shown are located in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland,
Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic and
Croatia.
The author, Cristoph Ling, is a photographer and travel journalist
working with the international photography centre in New York.
Critic Susanne Schaber wrote a text accompanying the photographs,
describing burial rites and cemetery cults in the Catholic,
Orthodox, Protestant and Moslem religions in the former monarchy.
The exhibition will be open until March.
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