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Dujšin Ribar 1897
Education:
With Emanuel Vidovic (Split 1915); with Vladimir Becic (
Zagreb, 1924-1925)
The Royal College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (1917-1921)
Biography: She spent her childhood in Kotor, where she graduated
from the Commercial College, and continued her arts education
in Zagreb. She married the actor Dubravko Dujšin (1894-1947)
in 1920. She supported herself through the restoration of
paintings. In 1952 she married the politician Ivan Ribar.
She left her flat at 3 Demetrova street to the City of Zagreb
in 1969 (together with the library, family collection and
her own paintings), and in 1978 donated her works to her
home town of Trogir, where a new gallery Cata Dujšin Ribar
was established in the Trogir Town Museum. She also published
collections of poems: Rastanci bez rastanka (Partings without
Parting), 1971, Iz kamene jeke (From the Stone Echo) 1975,
(including the poem "Noc tamna je moja" – "Dark
is my night", which she wrote in 1960) , and Lirika
(Lyrics), 1983. She was a presence within Croatian cultural
and public life for almost a century.
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