Richter Collection
- POI Number
- 02
- Typology
- Museum
- Country
- Croatia
- Municipality
- City of Zagreb
- District
- ÄŚrnomerec
- Address
- Vrhovec 38
- Web reference
- http://richter.mdc.hr/en/about-collection/
The entire creative works of one of the most influential Croatian artists of the 1950s and 1960s is presented in the one-storey villa at the address Vrhovac 38, known today as the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter. Its history begins in 1980, when Vjenceslav Richter and his wife Nada Kareš Richter donated works of art and their family home to the city of Zagreb with the objective of creating a place where Constructivist Art could be studied, where young artists could gather, as well as to encourage the spreading of cultural contents outside the core downtown area of Zagreb.
The Richter Collection, as it is most frequently called, was entrusted for management to the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1998. In the spring 2000, the Collection was opened to the public, while the close cooperation between Vjenceslav Richter and the Museum continued with the artist's dedication to increasing the donation with new works. Today, 182 works of art, created in the period from 1963 to 2002, are kept in the Collection, and they touch upon all of the areas of Richter's artistic activities.