Muzej grada Kaštela

Modern and Contemporary Art Collection

Head: Ankica Babin / museum advisor / ankica.Babin@st.t-com.hr
(Marin Studin Collection, Marin Studin Documentation, Modern Art Collection)
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Marin Studin Collection
During work of Studin Gallery, starting point of the Museum of the Town of Kaštela, the Collection of Art Production from the beginning of the 20th century till today began to develop. In the beginnings of exhibiting from 1989 till today, around two hundred and fifty paintings, sculptures and art installations were gathered. The majority of our holdings are works dated from the 1980s till today. Represented authors are mostly those from Croatia.
Marin Studin was born in 1895 in Kaštel Novi to farmers’ family. He acquires his first notions about art and handicraft’s skills at the Emanuel Vidović’s School of Arts and Crafts in Split and then he further continues his education Zagreb and Vienna. In 1921 and 1922 he stays in Paris where he attends two semesters at the Academie dela Grande Chaumiere and works in Antonio Burdelle’s workshop. He completes his education at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb where his status of an undergraduate student was signed by the head of the university Ivan Mestrović. Between two wars he works as a high school teacher. He teaches at the Academies in Zagreb and Belgrade from 1947 to 1955. He died in Split in 1960 as a retired professor. This collection has 68 works of Marin Studin.


Stylistic features

Studin opposes his plunging into pain, passion and inner sensation to the epic Romanticism of Meštrović which is a decision of his sculptor’s stylistic expression from the beginning of the 20th century, although the form of Meštrović follows him even 20 twenty years later. The rustic style in Studin exists equally with the academic one, what was respectfully noticed by the art historian Herbert Read in his preface to well-known Studin’s exhibition in London in 1953.
He achieves the archaic strength and intimate atmosphere of his birth hearth with his lyric structures of purified forms (it reminds us of “naive” art). This is where we find justification for told assessment of his work in the words of famous reviewer from London Keneton Parkens: Studin is the original national strength expressed in the simplest plastic form.

Marin Studin Collection
Marin Studin Collection
Modern Art
Modern Art Collection
Sculpture Collection
Sculpture Collection
Paintings Collection
Paintings Collection

Installation and New Media
Installation and New Media
Collection
Storage – “Maestral”
Storage – “Maestral”Collection