Marija Braut Collection

The collection contains numerous photographs and negatives of various formats related to localities in Zagreb. Marija Braut was born in 1929 in Celje. In 1941, she moved to Zagreb, where she completed secondary school and began studying architecture. She started her photography work in the studio of Toše Dabac in the late 1960s. She held her first exhibition in 1969 together with Petar Dabac. She worked in the Zagreb City Galleries, today's Museum of Contemporary Art, for which she shot catalogues and portraits of artists. From 1972, she worked as an independent artist. She collaborated with the Croatian National Theatre, the Zagreb Youth Theatre, Gavella City Drama Theatre, Kerempuh Satirical Theatre and Dubrovnik Summer Festival. She exhibited at more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions. She regularly published photographs in newspapers and specialized magazines.

Marija Braut's photographs are kept at the Zagreb City Museum, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatian State Archives, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Theatre studies, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia...