Maruševski Olga: Iso Kršnjavi kao graditelj

Olga Maruševski: Iso Kršnjavi as a builder

II., updated edition

The second, updated edition of this book will appear after twenty years. For all that time, it was the basic study textbook for the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Croatian history of art and culture. Olga Maruševski dealt with the person and work of Isa Kršnjai all her life, she continued her research during these twenty years. Their result is this updated edition. ( ... ) The value of Dr. Olga Maruševski's work and appearance in Croatian science and culture is so great that every publication of her works is not only an obligation, but a privilege.
Željka Čorak
 
This book by the author Olga Maruševski, first published in 1896 by the Society of Croatian Art Historians, remains to this day one of the fundamental works, not only for knowing Izidor Kršnjavi's invaluable contribution to our architectural heritage and history in general art, but at the same time it is one of the most complete retrospections of the cultural situation at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. By establishing and building educational, cultural and artistic institutions, the infrastructural foundations for cultural development were created and the conditions for the arrival of Croatian modernity on the artistic level were achieved. The fin de siècle period is a great renaissance, after which Croatian art established a more even and equal course towards its European environment. However, this great step forward would not have been possible without Izidior Kršnjavo, one of the key figures of Croatian culture at the end of the 19th century. A significant protagonist of the era, which demanded just such a personality - "always in Europe by ear and eye", Iso Kršnjavi was a painter, art historian, doctor of law and politician, who in a short "era" of public political activity, during the five-year term as head of the Department of Worship and Education of the National Government (from 1891 to 1896), achieved unprecedented cultural progress. (...)
The interpretation and analysis of both the cultural significance of Isa Kršnjavi and the historical era in which he worked, called in the literature "the era of Isa Kršnjavi", is scientifically based on extensive historical documentation, cited literature and archival sources, and on this basis the completed work is classified as a scientific work. This category has already been confirmed many times over because the book is recognized as basic literature for the study of art history, a fundamental work for learning about Croatian cultural and artistic history of the end of the 19th century."
Ivanka Reberski