Croatian State Archives in Zagreb
The CSA building is a successful junction of the early Viennese Secession and German architecture of the early 20th century.
The construction of the Royal University Library and the Royal State Archives began on February 21st, 1911 based on the competition-winning project of the architect Rudolf Lubynski. The building was inaugurated on the November 29th, 1913.
The CSA building, is the most significant palace of the Croatian art nouveau. It is a successful junction of the early Viennese Secession and German architecture of the early 20th century. It was designed as an autonomous building in the gardens, well incorporated in Zagreb’s Green Horseshoe – a U-shaped system of city squares with parks in Zagreb’s Lower city.
The High half-dome above the central reading room in the central part of the palace, with four pillars and four owls placed on each of them carrying globes, perfectly represented the identity of the library.
Robert Frangeš made the facades with allegories of four university sciences – philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, while Rudolf Valdec made the facade with an allegory of librarianship. Those facades are harmoniously integrated into a complete, simple, yet monumental vision of the architecture.
The Croatian State Archives preserves and scientifically and expertly processes archival material, i.e. documents of state and public institutions, companies, legal entities and natural persons whose activity spanned or spans the entire Republic of Croatia, but also much wider. The archival material that is kept has significance for the entire Republic of Croatia.
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Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is situated on the slopes of Medvednica mountain, in the Carpathian Basin, and on the banks of the Sava river. Zagreb has a rich and diverse history, culture, and architecture that reflect its long and turbulent past.
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Till the end of World War I several art movements and styles coexisted in Croatia, but all avant-garde movements were absent. That is why the greatest artworks of that period were done in the spirit of 19th-century art, including the most important examples of Vienna Secession style: the Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb in 1901, Kallina House in 1903, the National Library in 1912 were built in Zagreb, while Sulphurous Bath in 1903, and the Croatian National Theatre in 1908, were built in Split.
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