Julijana's room

Julijana's room is a reconstruction of the painter's studio of Julijana Erdödy Drašković (1847-1901).

Even though Julijana did not leave a great opus of her works, she marked the beginning of the academic realism of the Munich School in Croatia. She was born in Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1847, in a branch of the Erdödy family that, in addition to Bratislava, owned estates in Novi Marof. She received her first art lessons in Pozsony, and later also in Munich. After marrying the count Ivan IX Drašković she lived in Bisag, Pozsony, Veliki Bukovac and Trakošćan.

The studio still contains everything that surrounded her in her work and everyday life during her stay at Trakošćan: a painting stand, a table for paints and palettes, piano and paintings. Here one can see a significant part of her opus of works. Particularly noteworthy are portraits of women in folk costumes from the environs of Trakošćan, a portrait of her husband Ivan, and a self-portrait of herself sitting at the piano. In the corner of the studio, there are portraits of Julijana Drašković and her sister Valerie Erdödy, which were painted by Johann Till in the 1870s.

Window curtains, a carpet, and a mangal brazier lend the room an oriental flair, which was very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. The room was kept warm by a neo-Gothic stove which was heated by a warm air flowing from a furnace in the room below.