Nande Vidmar

NANDE VIDMAR (1899-1981) was a painter and graphic artist who studied painting at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1923-1924. Together with his brother Drago Vidmar, he established himself mainly in the circle of artists of expressionism and then of the new reality, but at the same time he also worked as a traditional landscape painter, genre painter and partisan artist. In the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, he began to create in the spirit of color realism and motif intimism. In the 70s, he completely withdrew from public life and did not exhibit until his death, while creating under the influence of abstract art. The latest works characteristically thematize the violence of the Second World War and are indirectly the author’s criticism of the social conditions of that time and the hegemony of the cultural elites. The permanent exhibition of Nande Vidmar has been on display since 2022. It was made possible thanks to a donation from the artist’s son Miša Vidmar, which made it possible to record 1,800 drawings and 200 paintings, which were already presented at the retrospective exhibition in 2019.