| Dora
Car 5.08.1889 -1964
Education:
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (1909-1913)
Biography: Croatian Biographical Lexicon shows how many
scholars, writers and artists owe their origins to this
Primorje stock from the time of the Illyrian Movement until
today. Dora is the daughter of a university professor of
zoology (co-founder and the chairman of the Croatian Naturalist
Society) and Minka de Novak, and the sister of Bogumil Car
(the most outstanding representative of the Croatian art
deco painting). Unlike her brother who led a rakish life,
Dora spent her life in self-denial as a dedicated arts teacher
in the Girls' college and then in the Second Girls' Secondary
School until she retired in 1942. Although authorities like
Matko Peic, member of academy, rank her water colours among
the most distinguished Croatian water colour painters, her
first one man exhibition was organised only 33 years after
her death, in 1977, from the donation by Dr. Josip Kovacic
to the City of Zagreb.
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