About our library

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Head of Library: Anita Katulić, Librarian, M.A.
 

The Institute of Art History’s library was founded in 1969 as a specialized library of a semi-open type, intended primarily for the needs of the Institute’s scientific research and those of its associates. In accordance with that, a large part of the library’s collection consists of books, magazines, exhibition catalogues and other publications from the national art history, as well as the related fields and the comparative foreign literature.

The library’s users are associates on research projects, professors, postgraduates, independent researchers, artists. The library’s content is systematically increasing through exchange, acquisitions, donations and Ministry of Science’s purchases.

The library’s collection consists of more than 12000 books, over 500 magazine titles, more than 1500 separate prints (offprints) and more than 1500 exhibition catalogues. Since 2004, the library’s materials are processed electronically and since 2007, the catalogue can also be searched on the IPU’s website.

The Art History Institute maintains an exchange of publications (magazines and books) with around a hundred related Croatian and around fifty foreign institutions. The exchange is organized by the library.

If your institution is interested in exchanging publications, contact knjiznica@ipu.hr, and you can find information about the publications here: ovdje.

Donations and inheritance

A significant part of the library’s content consists of book donations from art historians:

- donations from the legacy of Dr. Milan Prelog consists of 623 monographs, books and catalogues, 545 separate prints, as well as 142 magazines;

- donations from the legacy of Dr. Ana Deanović contain 522 monographs, 99 separate prints and 49 magazine titles;

- Dr. Žarko Domljan’s donations contain 378 monographs and 19 magazine titles;

- from the legacy of academic Cvito Fisković, the library inherited an important collection of separate prints (offprints);

- manuscript legacy of  Prof. Grga Gamulin contains hundreds of manuscripts, more than 2000 exhibition catalogues, around 400 offprints and a somewhat smaller number of magazines;

- the legacy of Radoslav Putar consists of manuscripts, notes, documents, printed works and exhibition catalogues.

Ana Deanović Archives

After the death of Ana Deanović in 1989, her husband, Živan Deanović gave a great part of her professional legacy to the Institute for safekeeping and further study. It mainly consists of unpublished materials produced during Ana Deanović's professional career, as well as of a significant part of her library.
The unpublished materials have been preserved in their original form. They comprise 167 files of drafts for published works, various notes, sketches, architectural documentation, photographs, postcards, etc. A summary list has been made for each file. The library consists of 671 units (books, catalogs, journals, offprints) accompanied by the alphabetical catalog.

Grgo Gamulin Archives

Professor Grgo Gamulin left hundreds of manuscrpits (most of them published), written in hand or typed, on art problems of a broad temporal and spatial scope. It covers practically the whole of Europe, particularly Italy, as well as Croatia, from the Early Renaissance to the present. His articles, studies, essays, monographs, and reviews deal with numerous Croatian and foreign painters, sculptors, naive artists, attributive problems regarding old masters, theoretical problems, synthesize the Croatian painting and sculpture of the 19th and the 20th century, etc. In addition to manuscripts, Gamulin left many photographs used in the scientific analyses of the works he had studied.
The Institute's catalog collection has been expanded by a valuable donation of the Gamulin family containing over 2000 catalogs of exhibitions staged after 1945 in Croatia and abroad. Special offprints from domestic and foreign journals (over 400), as well as certain annual files of journals (Mogućnosti, Dometi, Dubrovački horizonti, Književna smotra, Izraz, Republika, Revija Osijek, Forum, Umetnost, Prilozi za povijest umjetnosti etc.) are a significant contribution to the Institute library. We do not know the definitive number of volumes, as the donation has not yet been completed.

Ljubo Karaman Archives

Having received the donation of Ljubo Karaman back in 1972, the Institute was entrusted with the legacy of the outstanding scholar and practician of the disciplines of art history. This extensive collection registered as «Karaman Archives» holds most of the private library, with an impressive total of publications regarding general and national historiography (90 books, 243 volumes of periodicals), history of art and archaeology (209 books, 673 articles). The collection holds all Karaman's published works, syntheses, studies, and essays (221), newspaper articles (176), manuscripts (127 published ones, 29 unpublished, 3 incomplete), professional correspondence and photo-documentation, personal documents and photographs, audio recordings (7 tapes), newspaper articles on life (32) and work (54) of Ljubo Karaman. Under the Contract on the donation of the archives, its heirs retain the copyright, renouncing the claim of any sort of compensation for the use of materials. The Institute has been entrusted with the archives for scientific purposes. It has assumed the right and the obligation to set the terms of its proper use and protection.
This fine collection is a sort of a data base for the study of Karaman's achievements, as well as a starting point for the study and research of various segments of national heritage of monuments.

The Putar Archive

In 1994, the Institute has taken over the archive legacy of Radoslav Putar (Varaždin 20.7.1929 - Zagreb 18.7.1994), a prominent art historian, critic and curator, whose work has significantly orientated the Croatian cultural scene toward the contemporary art language. The legacy consists of manuscripts, notes, documents, printed works and exhibition catalogues. The publishing of Radoslav Putar's art critiques, studies and notes  (1950-1960) started in 1998, as a part of the "Small Library of the Institute of Art History".