This all-embracing collection of Slavonian art contains something for everyone, kicking off with some imposing nineteenth-century portraits of local aristocrats. Most striking of these is The Pejačević Family in the Park (1811) by German society painter Friedrich Johann Lieder, which fills an entire wall and shows the landowning dynasty lolling around in front of one of their many stately homes. If you want to really impress the locals with your knowledge of nineteenth-century Slavonian painting, then Adolf Waldinger (1843-1904) is the name to drop. Son of an Osijek wine merchant, Waldinger won a place at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna but failed to graduate, and struggled to earn money as an art teacher before dying penniless and largely forgotten. He’s now considered one of Slavonia’s greatest landscape painters – the moody, atmospheric canvases on display here help to explain why. Things get more steamy as the collection moves on to the early twentieth-century, when most local artists seemed bent on painting pictures of semi-naked ladies flouncing around in bedrooms. If you can bear to part company with these, a room or two of abstract works by contemporary painters brings things up to date.
Admission 5 - 10kn.
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I am born in Osijek, and I visit Osijek almost every year and then I meet my school friends in a very nice coffee shop, with excellent coffee and pastry called Waldinger. So I was interested to learn about him. And thank you to bring those information. I live in canada fr more than 1/2 of century and at the tie Iwas in "Uciteljska skola" our art profesor and academic painter was Leovic. I se some of his paintings on the walls of some city offices. We liked him very much and his creations are just super. When i come to Osijek neft time I will try to be more instructed about this "Esseker's" Artist This is how Osijek was called by german minority.