The conservation work of Danica Pinterović

After World War II, dr. Danica Pinterović started cooperating with the Committee for the Collection and Preservation of Cultural Monuments and Antiquities (Komisija za sakupljanje i očuvanje kulturnih spomenika i starine – KOMZA), an organisation founded in 1945, whose main task was to record and organise the protection of cultural monuments. In addition to her duties in the Museum of Slavonia, where she worked as the curator of the Archaeology Department and the Arts and Crafts Department, and later as the director, Danica Pinterović, together with dr. Josip Bösendorfer, Josip Leović and Hilda Tompak Hečej, was sent to work as a field worker for KOMZA. Her task was to record, document, and organise the shipping of objects with characteristics of monuments from Slavonian castles and confi scated objects. The field work, recording, and documenting of monuments of cultural and historical value certainly contributed to naming Danica Pinterović a honorary conservator for Osijek district in 1948. She remained in that position until 1954, when she was replaced by Blaž Misita-Katušić. While appointed as an honorary conservator, she constantly worked on developing and creating functional working conditions for the Museum of Slavonia, along with regularly surveying Osijek and Osijek area to record and document monuments and report to the competent Conservation Department in Zagreb. In Work Diaries I, II and III, kept as a part of the Documentary Collection in the Museum of Slavonia, she left behind various detailed descriptions and drawings of cultural and historical monuments, customs of Slavonia and Baranya, enriching the documentation and making it exceptionally valuable for future generations of conservators. “The Conservation Work of Danica Pinterović ”is based on studying the documentation that Danica Pinterović was in charge of before she became the honorary conservator and while she held that position. Danica Pinterović successfully cooperated with the Conservation Department in Osijek and Zagreb until the end of her working days. Croatian Conservator’s Association awarded her with an Honorary Member Diploma in 1974 for her contributions in the area of monument protection. The Society of Conservator’s Association of Yugoslavia awarded her with a Jubilee Medal and a diploma for research work on the protection of cultural heritage of Yugoslavia from 1945 until 1975