ZAGREB, July 5 (Hina) - An eminent Croatian painter, Zeljko Hegedusic, on Monday donated three valuable pieces of his work to each of the Museum of Vukovar, the Museum of Vinkovci and the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek. Culture Minister
Bozo Biskupic thanked the painter who is one of the oldest artists in the country for this noble act. Biskupic said artists in this way enriched holdings of Croatia's museums pointing to the above mentioned three museums which had been considerably damaged during the Homeland War. Hegedusic spoke about what had stimulated him to paint these nine pictures which he gave to the museums. The heads of these three museums received paintings. The head of Vukovar Museum, Ruza Maric, recalled that the museum in that eastern town had been completely demolished and looted during the Serb aggression. At an incentive by Minister Bisku
ZAGREB, July 5 (Hina) - An eminent Croatian painter, Zeljko
Hegedusic, on Monday donated three valuable pieces of his work to
each of the Museum of Vukovar, the Museum of Vinkovci and the Museum
of Slavonia in Osijek.
Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic thanked the painter who is one of the
oldest artists in the country for this noble act.
Biskupic said artists in this way enriched holdings of Croatia's
museums pointing to the above mentioned three museums which had
been considerably damaged during the Homeland War.
Hegedusic spoke about what had stimulated him to paint these nine
pictures which he gave to the museums.
The heads of these three museums received paintings.
The head of Vukovar Museum, Ruza Maric, recalled that the museum in
that eastern town had been completely demolished and looted during
the Serb aggression. At an incentive by Minister Biskupic, the
creation of the holdings of this museum in exile had begun in 1992,
and many Croatian and foreign artists gave their contribution to
the collection of the Vukovar Museum. At the moment it possesses
about 1,400 sculptures, paintings, pictures and graphics.
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