• The library belongs to the archives department mostly including books, catalogues, posters and magazines thematically related to art, naive art
    and museology as well.
  • The library inventory
    contains 5500 publications.
   
 
  • The legacy of Oto Bihalji Merin
    A very valuable gift to the library of the Museum of Naive Art is a part of the legacy of Oto Bihalji Merin. The gift contains: 1373 catalogues and books, 885 photographs, 375 slides and 40 files of manuscripts…
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Muzej naivne i
marginalne umetnosti
u Jagodini


Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art
Jagodina, Serbia

35000 Jagodina
Boška Đuričića 10.
tel/fax: (+381 35) 223 419
info@naiveart.rs

 
  About Bihalji Merin (1904-1993)
  • Serbian writer, essayist, art historian, publicist, publisher… He was born to a Jewish family in Zemun in 1904 and died in Belgrade in 1993. He graduated from the College of General and Applied Art in Berlin.

     
 
 
 
  • Starting from the 30's Bihalji Merin was one of the most important authorities and successful promoters of naive art in the world.
    Of an unconventional mind, widely educated, an original and universal thinker, efficient synthesist, associative writer, always clear and widely read, Oto Bihalji Merin unmistakably recognized true values of the art of his time noticing great ascents and tragic falls…
         
                     
            Milan Rašić, painter and Oto Bihalji          
                       
                       
                       
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