| Fany
Daubachy 10.03.1832 - 1882
Education:
Thugut Heinrich ( Zagreb until 1848), Dragutin Stark (Zagreb
from 1849), Remy van Haanen (Zagreb), Ivan Zasche (Zagreb).
Biography: From her date of birth it is obvious that she
is the oldest woman painter in the donation. As Dr Anka
Simic Bulat (an outstanding art historian and the greatest
authority on the life and work of this painter) said about
her in 1975, Fanny was born and spent her youth in the most
beautiful part of Zagreb, in Visoka Street, overlooking
the wood Tuškanac. Her father, the Surgeon General of Croatia
and Slavonia, appreciating the artistic talent of his sixth
child, provided for her education through the best painters
in Zagreb at the time. At the age of 13 she was already
capable of producing lithographs. On New Year's Eve 1849
she met a young politician Andrija Torkvat Brlic (1826-1868).
They were married twelve years later and had three children.
In 1892, Fanika's son Vatroslav became the husband of Ivana
Mažuranic, who later became the famous Croatian writer Ivana
Brlic Mažuranic. Fanika's first husband died at the age
of 42. Four years later Fanika married his brother Ignjat.
But she also died early. From the wedding date of her son
Vatroslav and Ivana Mažuranic it appears that Ivana never
met her talented mother-in-law, but that she admired her,
which is seen by the way she preserved her artistic inheritance;
Ivana passed the same care on to her descendants, until
the beginning of the Patriotic War, when the Brlic collection
was dispersed, including the opus of Fanny Daubachy.
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