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Zdenka Pexidr - Srića
1886.
1972.
Education:
Painting course with Csikos and Crnčić (Zagreb c. 1906)
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts (from 1907.) Academy in Munich (1910-1912)
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Biography: Daughter of a high school principal Gustav Pexidr (1859-1931) and a rich patrician from Novalja, Mica (Marija) Srića (formerly the noble family of Fortuna). At the Academy in Munich (1910) she met a colleague, student of Fine Arts, Erich Max Sieger from the German ducal family of Hohenlohe Bartenstein who, together with his sister, was the owner of the Götzenburg Castle in Mockmuhl. The castle is renowned for its former owner Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), the famous German "Götz of the iron hand". By marrying Erich (31 January 1914), Zdenka became the daughter in law in the castle, but could not endure the medieval atmosphere for long. After giving birth to a daughter in Novi Vinodol in 1918, she refused to return to the castle (where Erich, according to the family information, perished in the shelter during the bombardment at the end of the Second World War). As a widow she married again the publisher and diplomat Pavle Ostović, a great friend of the sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
The personal and artistic biography of this painter is fascinating; she excelled in the technique of water colour painting and in motifs of everyday home life, especially of children, and was also remarkable at drawing human and animal bodies. The first Croatian book by Kosta Strajnić (Zagreb, 1916) on the phenomenon of women in art, deals with the painting of Zdenka Pexidr and with the work of the sculptor and medallist Iva Simonović. |
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