The exhibition will feature works by Ivan Meštrović, Celestin Medović, Bela Čikoš-Sesija, Vladimir Becić, Ljubo Babić, Jerolim Miše, Marijan Detoni, Krsto Hegedušić, Vilim Svečnjak, Robert Frangeš-Mihanović, Rudolf Valdec, and others.
The director of the Split City Museum, Vesna Bulić Baketić, said that the exhibition should not be missed by any educational institution from the broader area, as it represents heritage and direct learning about the essence of Croatian artistic expression, from the time when preserving national identity was a primary concern, to the periods that allowed artists to develop within Central European frameworks.
"By uniting two major institutions, the city and the national one, national artistic and heritage works will be available to an audience that can satisfy its cultural and artistic needs exclusively within its own environment. Split has proven that it can host and organise major exhibitions," said Bulić Baketić.
The exhibition runs through 2 February 2025.
The director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Branko Franceschi, who is the curator of the exhibition, said that after the exhibition in Split, "which presents to our audience a particularly cherished period of visual arts from the first half of the 20th century," its complementary counterpart will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, showcasing high modernism in Croatia in the second half of the century.