Dragan Damjanović
Dragan Damjanović (1978) is a full professor and the Chair of Modern Art and Visual Communications at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
His main research interests are related to the history of Croatian and Central European art and architecture of the 19th and 20th century.
He has published 15 books and numerous papers, curated exhibitions and organized congresses related to this subject. Most of his papers were published in Croatian journals. However, he has also published several papers in English in various journals (Centropa, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, Architectura-Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Baukunst, Umění/Art, Acta Historiae Artium) and in edited books.
In 2015 he curated exhibition on 19th century Croatian architect Herman Bollé and in 2018 he curated the exhibition and published the book Otto Wagner und die kroatische Architektur.
He was awarded with 6 national awards for his work, of which most important are: Croatian National Scientific Award (2006), Zagreb City Council Award (2015), and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Annual Award (2016).
He has been heading following projects: Croatian Art Heritage from the Baroque to Postmodernism – Artistic Connections, Import of Art Works, Collections (University of Zagreb project) and Art and the State in Croatia from the Enlightenment to the Present (Croatian Science Foundation project).