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Štefana Klaić - Hribar
1863.
17.08.1941.
Education:
Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen, Vienna
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| Biography: During the course of the 19th century, the Slavonian stock of Klaić from Garčin developed several famous Croats in education (Franjo Klaić), politics (the painter's father, viceroy Marko Klaić) and in science (the historian Vjekoslav Klaić). Štefana Klaić reflects the family artistic genes, which would later continue in different family branches until the modern Croatian painter Đurđena Zaluški). When she married, her parents, wealthy Slavonian landowners, gave her as their only child a house at 61 Jurjevska, Zagreb, as a dowry. She married Franjo Hribar, who had a stationery shop in Vienna. Her husband died young and she was left with two sons, of whom the younger died early, and the older, Stjepan (1889-1965), became an outstanding architect – an urban planner for the city of Zagreb. Among Štefana's opus, a special place is held by small water colours which she painted to the size of a post card, and which reflected all her motherly love and care when she was sending them to her son Stjepan in Dresden where he studied and was a soldier during the First World War. In the Zagreb cemetery of Mirogoj withinin the arcades, is the tomb of Klaić Hribar. Her name is not written on the tomb because her daughter-in-law who was always jealous of her, erased her name after her death. |
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