Weekly attraction / First work in the UGM Collection
Weekly attraction / First work in the UGM Collection
The first work in the UGM Collection was purchased 32 years before the gallery was founded. How come? In 1920, the club of Maribor artists Grohar started operating in Maribor, which is considered to be the beginning of organizing art activities in the city - this year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary. Alongside the club, which was also supported by Rudolf Maister himself, a vision of a permanent space for the exhibition of contemporary art at the time soon emerged. Thus, in 1922, the club bought a small but valuable painting by the famous Slovenian Impressionist Ivan Grohar with the motif of a chapel. The painting was then kept in the custody of the Maribor Provincial Museum until the establishment of the gallery in 1954, where it was entered as the first work in the UGM inventory book, with more than 7,000 works that today make up the UGM Collection.
