{"id":86841,"date":"2023-09-30T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsk.hr\/?page_id=86841"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:50:01","slug":"nsk-print-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsk.hr\/en\/nsk-collections\/nsk-print-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"NSK Print Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Print Collection of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb, assembles artistic non-book material dating from the 15th<\/sup> century to the present day. Operating as a-museum-within-a-library, it is the largest collection of its kind in Croatia and one of the most valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Menci Clement Crn\u010di\u0107. Erste Bosnische Autotour<\/em>, 1908.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Holdings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Collection holds artwork created on paper by Croatian and world-famous artists including drawings, prints, print portfolios, art posters and postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Croatian artists<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Resources in the Collection include works by Croatian renowned 16th<\/sup>-century artists Julije Klovi\u0107<\/a>, Andrija Meduli\u0107 and Martin Rota Koluni\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julije Klovi\u0107. Bogorodica s usnulim Isusom, svetim Josipom i Ivanom Krstiteljem<\/em>, 1540.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Its treasures also include artwork by the great 19th<\/sup>-century painters Hugo Conrad von H\u00f6tzendorf, Ivan Zasche, Vlaho Bukovac, Celestin Medovi\u0107 and Oton Ivekovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, most of the works that the Collection holds are by 20th<\/sup>-century artists, such as Ljubo Babi\u0107, Tomislav Krizman, Menci Clement Crn\u010di\u0107, Miroslav Kraljevi\u0107, Vilko Gecan, Marijan Trep\u0161e, Sergije Glumac, Anka Krizmani\u0107, Andrija Maurovi\u0107, Miroslav \u0160utej, Edo Murti\u0107, Jadranka Fatur, Nives Kavuri\u0107 Kurtovi\u0107 and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greats of world art<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rembrandt. \u010covjek u sjenici, 1642.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Dioklecijanova pala\u010da u Splitu, 1712.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the Collection\u2019s greatest treasures are prints and drawings by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, George Grosz, Oskar Kokoschka, K\u00e4the Kollwitz and Max Pechstein, including a poster by Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Print portfolios and artists\u2019 books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Also assembling print portfolios and artists\u2019 books bringing together graphic art and the art of words, the Collection holds the largest assemblage of print portfolios in Croatia, including the titles of The Bi\u0161kupi\u0107 Collection (Zbirka Bi\u0161kupi\u0107), which comprises over one hundred print portfolios created during a fifty-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ivan Picelj. Nove tendencije 2<\/em>, 1963.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Postcards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Featuring Croatia\u2019s vistas and the famous panoramas around the world, interesting ethnographic details and people of the past, the Collection\u2019s postcards date from the beginning of the 19th<\/sup> century to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collection\u2019s oldest treasure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Michael Wolgemut. Gebenna<\/em>, 1493.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1493 in Nuremberg by German physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel, Gebenna<\/a>, a woodcut depicting Geneva, is the Collection\u2019s oldest item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference collection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Collection\u2019s reading room makes available an extensive collection of various reference works that may be consulted in the Collection\u2019s reading room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital resources<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Collection\u2019s digitised resources are available on the NSK Digital Collections<\/a> and NSK Digitised Visual Material<\/a> websites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access to collection items<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Owing to their great value and the need for careful handling, resources in the Collection may only be consulted in the Collection\u2019s reading room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collection\u2019s resources may be digitised upon request, for research purposes only. Digitisation requests may be submitted by filling out a request form<\/a> and emailing it at grafzbirka@nsk.hr<\/a> or in person, in the Collection\u2019s reading room.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference works available in the Collection\u2019s reading room may be freely consulted without a prior request during the Collection\u2019s opening hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibitions and publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Apart from being presented on the NSK Online Exhibitions<\/a> website, the Collection\u2019s treasures are frequently featured as part of physical exhibitions in Croatia and abroad and spotlighted through art monographs that the Collection regularly publishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n