Line of Life: Drawings from the holdings of the Collection of Andro Vid Mihičić

The study exhibition entitled Line of Life: Drawings from the holdings of the Collection of  Andro Vid Mihičić by curator Martinela Mužić will open at the Fritzi Gallery of the Lošinj Museum on Wednesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. In the legacy of the Lošinj Museum, as part of the Mihičić Collection, a large number of drawings are stored, most of which have never been exhibited to the public. These are works from the once private collection of Andro Vid Mihičić (Beli, Cres, 1896 - Krk, 1992) a writer and a poet, an art historian and a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. The drawings, unknown to the general and professional public, over 250 works by recognized artists and lesser-known names of Croatian fine art of the 20th century, were created in a time span of sixty years. A rich segment of the Collection consists of series of works by Mihičić's students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb created in 1953, as well as drawings made by friends, renowned Croatian artists of the last century.

 The year 2023 represents the 30th anniversary of the installation and exhibition of the art works of the Mihičić Collection to the public; in 1993, they became part of the permanent exhibition at the Fritzi Palace. The aim of the exhibition was to publish and present the drawings to the public in the context of the works of individual authors and in the focus of the professional work of Andro Vid Mihičić, an intellectual who was inextricably linked to the visual material he collected. The ultimate goal is the valorisation and popularization of drawing as an independent and noteworthy artistic medium. Drawings by artists from the circle represented in the Mihičić Collection represent a heritage whose artistic and documentary value is the trace of a time. Andro Vid Mihičić spent most of his life in artistic circles, gaining many friendships among artists who sometimes gave him their works of art  or from whom he purchased works based on which the art collection stored at the Lošinj Museum was created.