• 1. What was hidden under the Museum
• 2. Before Zagreb
• 3. Finds at the Site of Discovery
• 4. First Recorded Use of the Name of Zagreb
• 5. The Royal Free Town on Gradec
• 6. Conflict, Punishment, Prejudice
• 7. Medvedgrad
• 8. The Ottoman Threat
• 9. The Emblems of the City
• 10. Laška Ves and Nova Ves
• 11. Kaptol
• 12. The Building of the Cathedral
• 13. The Main Portal of the Cathedral
• 14. The Interior of the Cathedral
• 15. The Restoration of the Cathedral by Bollé
• 16. The Parish and the Parish Church of St. Mark at Gradec
• 17. The Baroque Altars of St. Mark’s
• 18. The Guilds of Gradec and Kaptol
• 19. Master Craftsmen of Gradec and Kaptol
• 20. The New System of Municipal Government
• 21. Religious Orders Encourage Piety and Education
• 22. The Poor Clares of Zagreb
• 23. Veneration for the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 24. Magnates at Gradec
• 25. Parks and Walks
• 26. Life in the Lower Town
• 27. The Time of the Croatian National Revival
• 28. Ban Josip Jelačić
• 29. From the Homes of Zagreb People during the Biedermeier Period
• 30. Civic Societies and Clubs
• 31. The Foundations of the Modern City
• 32. Ilica Becomes the Main Commercial Street
• 33. From the Photographic Studio
• 34. The Lower Town
• 35. Theatre Life
• 36. Public Utilities
• 37. Life in Associations
• 38. Sensations from the Beginning of the 20th Century
• 39. Echoes from the Battlefield
• 40. House and Life
• 41. The Second World War
• 42. In Socialist Reality
• 43. The Zagreb School of Animated Film
• 44. Zagreb in Independent Croatia
• 46. The Study of Ivan pl. Zajc
• 45. Echoes of Events in Zagreb
• 47. August Šenoa and Zagreb
• 48. Tilla Durieux and her Art Collection
• 49. The Collection of Mechanical Musical Automata of Ivan Gerersdorfer
• 50. Dr Ante Rodin''s Collection of Old Packaging

Permanent Display 48. Tilla Durieux and her Art Collection

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Experience of a century

Tilla Durieux (born Ottilia Godefroy, 1880-1971) was one of the most important figures in the acting world of Germany. She was a great star of the Berlin theatre of the golden twenties. She belonged to the up-and-down period of the Weimar Republic. For her, the period between 1903 and 1918 was marked by two key figures. Max Reinhardt created her as an actress, and Paul Cassirer brought her into the centre of the most advanced goings-on from the fin de siécle. The second period ended with the Hitler persecutions of 1933. The Zagreb period of 1934 to 1952 brought her refuge, peace and repose before new efforts. In the foyer of the Croatian National Theatre, she met Zlata Lubienski, and from 1938 lived in 27 Jurjevska Street. She returned to Berlin in 1955, devoting herself to acting until the end of her life.

The Donation

In 1982, in the Parliament building, Ms Erika Danhoff signed a deed giving part of the collection to the city of Zagreb. Her words went: My great friend, and artistic mother, T.D. loved your city. She loved Zagreb, which was her own city for so many years, and to which she was later always connected. So I am convinced that she would be happy always to be here in it in this way. The newly formed Commission accepted part of the collection in the name of the Museum. It included a total of 19 artistic objects.

Slavko Šterk




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