LEGACY OF DR. BRANKO ILIĆ: AN INVALUABLE FUND OF FOREIGN ART IN SERBIA
LEGACY OF DR. BRANKO ILIĆ: AN INVALUABLE FUND OF FOREIGN ART IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The Foreign Art Collection, an annex of the City Museum of Novi Sad, was opened to the public on June 7, 1968, in a specialized building in Dunavska Street. It was formed from the art collection of Dr. Branko Ilić, a Novi Sad physician and former mayor, who collected paintings and works of applied art of foreign origin over a period of five decades. It is the second largest collection of its kind in Serbia, possessing exceptional museological and cultural-historical importance. The collection of Italian and Dutch-Flemish Renaissance and Baroque paintings, together with several works of important painters of the French School from the same period, possess exceptional artistic value. The collection of works of applied art contains valuable pieces of furniture, silverware, porcelain, glass, Oriental rugs and objects from the Far East, along with numerous examples of small interior decorations obtained by Dr. Branko Ilić for the salons of his house in Novi Sad.

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