Dimitrije Bašičević

Dimitrije Bašičević (Mangelos).

Born 1921 in Šid, Serbia. Died 1987 in Zagreb. Studied art history and philosophy in Vienna and Zagreb (1942–1949, grad. 1949 in Zagreb, Ph.D. 1957). 1949–1959 assistant at the Moderna galerija and curator of the fine arts archive of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1959–1966 member of Gorgona. 1960–1964 curator of the Galerija primitivne umjetnosti, Zagreb. 1965–1971 curator and head of the Benko Horvat Collection. 1973 head of the Centar za fotografiju, film i televiziju (CEFFT) at the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb. 1972–1978 member of the editorial board of Spot, a journal on photography published by the Galerije grada Zagreba.

He took part in the organization of New Tendencies and was on the editors' board of Bit and Spot magazines.

Exhibitions:

• 1968, Permanent Art, Galerija 212, Belgrade.
• 1969, typoezija, Galerija Studentskog centra, Zagreb.

Literature:

• D. B., Sava Šumanovič. Život i umetnost, Zagreb, 1960.

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