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Fany Daubachy
10.03.1832.
1882.
Education:
Thugut Heinrich ( Zagreb until 1848), Dragutin Stark (Zagreb from 1849), Remy van Haanen (Zagreb), Ivan Zasche (Zagreb).
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| Biography: From her date of birth it is obvious that she is the oldest woman painter in the donation. As Dr Anka Simić Bulat (an outstanding art historian and the greatest authority on the life and work of this painter) said about her in 1975, Fanny was born and spent her youth in the most beautiful part of Zagreb, in Visoka Street, overlooking the wood Tuškanac. Her father, the Surgeon General of Croatia and Slavonia, appreciating the artistic talent of his sixth child, provided for her education through the best painters in Zagreb at the time. At the age of 13 she was already capable of producing lithographs. On New Year's Eve 1849 she met a young politician Andrija Torkvat Brlić (1826-1868). They were married twelve years later and had three children. In 1892, Fanika's son Vatroslav became the husband of Ivana Mažuranić, who later became the famous Croatian writer Ivana Brlić Mažuranić. Fanika's first husband died at the age of 42. Four years later Fanika married his brother Ignjat. But she also died early. From the wedding date of her son Vatroslav and Ivana Mažuranić it appears that Ivana never met her talented mother-in-law, but that she admired her, which is seen by the way she preserved her artistic inheritance; Ivana passed the same care on to her descendants, until the beginning of the Patriotic War, when the Brlić collection was dispersed, including the opus of Fanny Daubachy. |
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