The Viennese exhibition Hommage à Nasta Rojc is dedicated to the painter Nasta Rojc, one of the most important representatives of Croatian painting of the 20th century. Since she had a strong connection to the city of Vienna, some 50 paintings by the artist will be exhibited at the Palais Porcia until 28 April 2017. Nasta Rojc, whose works can also be found in the Moderna Galerija in Zagreb, is nowadays often referred to as the pioneer of modernity. This applies both to her paintings and to her life as an openly lesbian woman who worked for the equality of women in art. (https://www.kroatien-liebe.com/event/kunstausstellung-hommage-a-nasta-rojc/) Nasta (Jerka Hermina Ljubica) Rojc, one of the first academically educated Croatian women painters, was born in Bjelovar on Nov. 6, 1883, the first of 4 children in the family of the eminent solicitor, doctor of law Milan Rojc.... After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941 Nasta was suspected of supporting the partisans and was considered disreputable, so her house and studio in Zagreb which she herself had designed were confiscated. In July 1943 Nasta, aged 60, was arrested, but eventually was released on account of insufficient proof. Nasta made this harrowing, dramatic and humiliating experience immortal in prison by drawing 11 small sketches in pencil, on toilet paper smuggled in. She died, forgotten, on November 6, 1964 in Zagreb, on the date of her birth, and was buried together with A. M. Onslow on the evangelical part of the Mirogoj cemetery.... (http://www.rutars.net/sr_01_stefan_rutar/sr_2400_kultzadeve/sr_2405_anton_rojc/sr_2405_nasta_rojc/index2.htm) undefined

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