Herman Oskar

(Zagreb, Croatia, 1886 – Zagreb, Croatia, 1974)

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich off and on until 1910. He exhibited his work in Zagreb for the first time in 1908. Except for during his military service which he spent in Zagreb and some shorter trips, he lived in Munich until 1933, and after that he returned to Zagreb.  In 1941 he went to Ljubljana, from where he was deported to the Italian Refugee Camp in Ferramonti the following year. Afterwards, he participated in the organization of the exhibition of the partisan artist in Split and worked in Šibenik. He worked as a curator of the Modern Gallery in Zagreb from 1945 to 49. With Josip Račić, Miroslav Kraljević, and Vladimir Becić, he was a representative of the so-called Munich Circle, which marks the beginning of modern Croatian painting.