ZAGREB ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - An exhibition of photos of graveyards in countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy by photographer and travel journalist Christoph Lyngg and literary critic and journalist Susanne Schaber was
opened at Zagreb's Mimara Museum on Friday. The event, organised by the Austrian Embassy's cultural affairs department and the Mimara Museum, was opened in the presence of Susanne Schaber. The exhibition includes 39 black-and-white photos taken by Lyngg, showing the fragments of and sculptures at old, partly neglected graveyards in the countries of the former Hapsburg monarchy - Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary. Several photos taken in Croatia show Zagreb's central cemetery of Mirogoj, the Varazdin town cemetery, the navy graveyard in Pula and the cemetery at Hum. The exhibition is accomp
ZAGREB, March 18 (Hina) - An exhibition of photos of graveyards in
countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy by photographer
and travel journalist Christoph Lyngg and literary critic and
journalist Susanne Schaber was opened at Zagreb's Mimara Museum on
Friday.
The event, organised by the Austrian Embassy's cultural affairs
department and the Mimara Museum, was opened in the presence of
Susanne Schaber.
The exhibition includes 39 black-and-white photos taken by Lyngg,
showing the fragments of and sculptures at old, partly neglected
graveyards in the countries of the former Hapsburg monarchy -
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Czech
Republic, Ukraine and Hungary.
Several photos taken in Croatia show Zagreb's central cemetery of
Mirogoj, the Varazdin town cemetery, the navy graveyard in Pula and
the cemetery at Hum.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Susanne Schaber on burial
customs and the graveyard cult in the religions present in said
areas - the Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Muslim.
(hina) rml