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Fine Arts Committee

The Art Donations Committee of NFCACF was set up in late 2016, to allow Croatian museums to receive gifts of artwork from the NFCACF to US-based collectors willing to donate works to enhance museum displays.

The NFCACF owns the donated work for three years or more, during which time it leases the painting to a Croatian-based institution for display. At some future point, NFCACF will donate the artwork to one or more appropriate museum or another cultural institution in Croatia.
As of November, 2021 there have been six paintings donated so far and the first such donation was loaned to and exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in December 2017 in Zagreb. The painting “Mary and Child” by Andrea Schiavone (Andrija Medulic) received great public acclaim, being the first firmly attributed work in Croatia by this important Venetian painter from Zadar. Also, five other paintings have been donated since including ones by Dutch painter Jan Victors and from the Italian painter, Leandro Bassano.
The NFCACF’s relationship with the MUO Museum in Zagreb has been further established because of the March 2020 series of earthquakes in Croatia, which caused considerable damage to the building and holdings of the MUO Museum. The NFCACF network raised over 20,000 dollars in 2020 directly earmarked for the MUO Museum to help with the immediate cleanup and repairs necessary as an offshoot from the earthquakes.
Over the past 20 months, the work of the NFCACF Art Committee has been impeded by the Covid pandemic. However, as the pandemic conditions improve over time and Zagreb Museums re-open more fully, the Art Committee is planning to proceed more fully with its donation agenda and actual painting gifts to Croatian-based museums.

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Art Donations

Committee Chair: Dr. Dinko Podrug

Jan Victors (1619-1676) — Portrait of a young lady as Diana, in a violet dress and pearl jewelry, holding a bow and quiver! Jan Victors was a pupil of Rembrandt and this painting was formerly exhibited at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, 2009-2012.

This masterpiece by Andrea Schiavone (also known as Andrija Medulic, Zadar 1510-1563 Venice) is called the “Madonna and Child.” This NFCA donation to the MUO Museum brought back to Croatia, a painting from a Zadar-born Croatian who became a well known Italian Renaissance painter.

Leandro Bassano (1557-1622) — attributed: Agony in the Garden (Christ in the Garden of Getsemane). This painting shares many elements with similiar compositions by Leandro and his brother Francesco with paintings in the Museum of Palazzo Barberini, in Rome. This painting is already at the MUO Museum ready to be exhibited when the Zagreb Museum re-opens in 2022.

Dutch School, 17th Century — possible attribution to Daniel Thievaert ( c.1611an Old Testament scene, possibly presenting gifts for the temple

Giovanni Marinoni (Venice 1490 – 1560 Naples) — A Dominican Monk and this cradled panel painting was in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum from 1939 to 2012 and sold through Sotheby’s in 2013.

Art Donations

Committee Chair: Dr. Dinko Podrug

Jan Victors (1619-1676) — Portrait of a young lady as Diana, in a violet dress and pearl jewelry, holding a bow and quiver! Jan Victors was a pupil of Rembrandt and this painting was formerly exhibited at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, 2009-2012.

This masterpiece by Andrea Schiavone (also known as Andrija Medulic, Zadar 1510-1563 Venice) is called the “Madonna and Child.” This NFCA donation to the MUO Museum brought back to Croatia, a painting from a Zadar-born Croatian who became a well known Italian Renaissance painter.

Leandro Bassano (1557-1622) — attributed: Agony in the Garden (Christ in the Garden of Getsemane). This painting shares many elements with similiar compositions by Leandro and his brother Francesco with paintings in the Museum of Palazzo Barberini, in Rome. This painting is already at the MUO Museum ready to be exhibited when the Zagreb Museum re-opens in 2022.

Dutch School, 17th Century — possible attribution to Daniel Thievaert ( c.1611an Old Testament scene, possibly presenting gifts for the temple

Giovanni Marinoni (Venice 1490 – 1560 Naples) — A Dominican Monk and this cradled panel painting was in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum from 1939 to 2012 and sold through Sotheby’s in 2013.

 Film Screening

Operation Storm DVD film cover

4 film DVD covers

2018 NY City showing with Nikola Knez’s film “Tito’s License for Genocide” documentary about Bleiburg-Operation Slaughterhouse

2019 Capitol Hill film event showcasing Nikola Knez film “Operation Storm”

Operation Storm DVD film cover

4 film DVD covers

2018 NY City showing with Nikola Knez’s film “Tito’s License for Genocide” documentary about Bleiburg-Operation Slaughterhouse

2019 Capitol Hill film event showcasing Nikola Knez film “Operation Storm”

Church Restoration

PARTNERING TO HELP RESTORE THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE!

The NFCACF Special Projects Committee has partnered over the past three years with two church restoration projects in Croatia: Chapel on Island Šćedro, Jelsa Parish, Island of Hvar and Račišće Parish Church, Island of Korčula.

These projects allowed the NFCACF to collaborate with a Croatian American donor and with contractors and church officials on the ground in Croatia to facilitate funding and the management of both these church restoration projects.