Schneider Artur: Miroslav Kraljević prva monografija

– the first monograph

The significance of Miroslav Kraljević for Croatian modern art is known and emphasized many times.  Although he died barely 27 years old (1885 – 1913) and organized only one solo exhibition in Salon Ulrich, he was still noticed as an important artistic phenomenon during his lifetime. This is evidenced by the monograph that was printed 5 years after his death, and which the author, Dr. Artur Schneider, begins with the words:

"The appearance of Miroslav pl. Kraljević is special in the history of our young fine arts. Unfortunately, due to his early death, which befell him at the age of twenty-seven, his artistic activity was limited to a short period of two or three years. But even in this short time, works were created that we can rightly count as among the best overall of our Kraljević is the first of our artists, who consciously and not only adopted the basic principles of modern art in an external way. These are Adoration of Beauty and Cocote.

The monograph was printed in four hundred numbered copies. The copy in the ALU Library is numbered 28.
Clichés and prints of the Zemaljske tiskara

The significance of Miroslav Kraljević for Croatian modern art is known and emphasized many times.  Although he died barely 27 years old (1885 – 1913) and organized only one solo exhibition in Salon Ulrich, he was still noticed as an important artistic phenomenon during his lifetime. This is evidenced by the monograph that was printed 5 years after his death, and which the author, Dr. Artur Schneider, begins with the words:

"The appearance of Miroslav pl. Kraljević is special in the history of our young fine arts. Unfortunately, his artistic activity was limited to a short period of two or three years due to his early death, which befell him at the age of twenty-seven. But even in this short time, works were created that we can rightly count as the best overall of our contemporary art Kraljević is the first artist of ours, who adopted the basic principles of modern art mentally and not only externally. These are Adoration of Beauty and Cocote.

The monograph was printed in four hundred numbered copies. Copy number 338
Clichés and stamps of the Zemaljske tiskara

"Savremenika" edition, Zagreb, 1918.

Artur Schneider (Zagreb, August 26 1879 – Zagreb, March 10 1946, Croatian art historian, music writer and art critic.

He completed the art history studies in Vienna, and was the director of the NSB Graphic Collection, high school and university professor and director of the Strossmayer gallery HAZU. He was also the secretary of HGZ and organized the series "Intimate Music Evenings" and "Morning Concerts". He collaborated as a music publicist and critic in magazines and dailies, and among his studies the most significant is the one about Ivan Mana Jarnović. He wrote and published studies about Croatian artists who worked in foreign environments, about the paintings of Strossmaya rove galleries. For the art archive JAZU, he listed and recorded a large number of works of art around Croatia.