The described collection includes 53 graphic sheets, which serve as the base for printing and later for linocut making. It also includes 127 pencil drawings. The graphic sheets and drawings are of different dimensions, thus their prevailing theme is connected with Idrija mining heritage.
Measures
Drawings: length 19–28 cm, height 8–30.5 cm; Graphic Sheet: length 17–39 cm, height 22.5–48 cm.
Materials
Paper
Dating
1980‒1995
Author / Producer
Rafael Trpin
Picture attachments
Original use
The most common distinctive motifs of the academic painter Rafael Trpin’s works are the Idrija miner's houses and also his view of the city’s changing appearance. With his artistic-documentary works, he presents the changing appearance of Idrija and mining objects, in recent and distant history, based on archival sources and photographs. The described collection includes graphic sheets, which serve as the base for linocut making (56 altogether), which were published in a book by the author (2001). The time span of mining heritage of the city in his linocut works extends between the years 1875 and 1960. The described collection also includes some originals from the author’s extensive opus of drawings of Idrija houses (total of 323 houses on 423 drawings). It was drawn between 1987 and 2009, and then also published in a book in a miniature version (2011).
Present use
The described collection of graphic sheets and drawings is being preserved, secured and presented as important mining heritage of Idrija with exceptional universal values. The described artistic works are a part of the art collection of Idrija Municipal Museum. They can be used for occasional exhibitions and promotion of mercury heritage.
Original location
Idrija.
Present location
Idrija Municipal Museum, depot Prelovčeva 2.
STATE OF CONSERVATION
History of conservation:
The collection of graphic sheets and drawings is properly preserved. Additional interventions are not necessary. Security of the premises is taken care of. In 2007, Rafael Trpin donated a total of 155 drawings of homesteads of Idrija, Cerkno and surrounding areas to the Idrija Municipal Museum.
Present state
good
Necessary activities:
Regular seasonal maintenance.
DOCUMENTATION
Addresses / collections / links etc. where further in-depth information is accessible:
- Inventory Book of the Idrija Municipal Museum;
- Rafael Trpin, Old Idrija in linocut. Idrija: Museum Society, 2001;
- Rafael Trpin. Idrija Houses. Idrija: R Terpin, 2011.