Zagreb, wiewed from the south


drawn and lithographed by Ivan Zasche, printed by Reiffenstein and Rosch at Vienna 1858 Paper, coloured lithograph View of the town from a distance. On the left the building of the University rectory, the Upper Town in the centre and the Kaptol to the right. In the middle of the foreground a road and a brook. The signature on the bottom left reads: 'Lithographirt v. Johann Zasche.', on the bottom right: 'Gedr. b. Reiffenstein & Rosch in Wien.', on the bottom in the centre the title 'ZAGREB. AGRAM / Eigenthum des Johann Zasche.'. Ivan Zasche (Jablonec/Czech, 1825 - Zagreb, 1863), a painter schooled at Vienna, had come to Zagreb in the spring of 1852 at the invitation of the Bishop of Zagreb Haulik, to do a series of views of the newly finished bishop's park of Jurjaves (later Maksimir). He had remained in Zagreb for the rest of his life and painted a series of excellent portraits, altar paintings and scenes from rural life. The Museum holds numerous works by Zasche - a couple of lithograph maps of the Jurjaves park, an altar painting of Virgin Mary and the Child, a miniature portrait of Ivana Pichler, and portraits, the most outstanding among them being the portrait of Izabela Schlosser. M.Schneider, Vedute XIX stoljeca u grafici, Zagreb, 1968, pages 166 and 167; M. Schneider, Slikar Ivan Zasche (1825-1863), Zagreb, 1975, page 155, catalogue number 113.




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