Ivan Mestrovic Gallery

Ivan Mestrovic Gallery is an art museum in Split, Croatia dedicated to the work of the 20 th-century sculptor, Ivan Mestrovic. The gallery preserves and affords to the public the maximum enormous works of Mestrovic and is in itself an art monument. The everlasting collection includes works of sculpture, drawings, layout, fixtures and structure. Holdings consist of unique plaster fashions with the aid of the artist, in addition to completed works in bronze, marble and wood.

The gallery constructing and grounds had been primarily based on original plans with the aid of Mestrovic himself, and covered living and working areas, in addition to exhibition areas. Ivan Mestrovic bought a chunk of land on the Marjan peninsula west of Split within the 1920s, in which he meant to build a summer season domestic. The villa turned into constructed between 1931 and 1939 to an unique design by Mestrovic himself, and he turned into worried proper though its creation. The architects Harold Bilinic and Lavoslav Horvat advanced the plans, and builder Marin Marasovi? become in fee of production.