Celestina (Tina) Morpurgo

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Rodila se 1907. u Splitu u obitelji aškenaskih židova, poznatih splitskih knjižara i poduzetnika.[3][4] Hrvatski preporoditelj Vid Morpurgo bio je brat njenog djeda po ocu, Josipa Morpurga, odnosno stric njenog oca Viktora Morpurga.[6] Nakon što je završila srednju školu posvetila se slikarstvu. 1931. godine održala je prvu samostalnu izložbu na kojoj je izložila pedesetak radova u tehnici ulja, tempere i crteža. Slikala je krajobraze splitske okolice i mrtvu prirodu u realističkom stilu. 1932. je godine pošla u privatnu školu u Trst, gdje je imala rodbinu. Planirala je nastaviti školovanje i slikarski se razvijati u Münchenu, no uspon nacista i svjetska gospodarska kriza prisilili su je ostati u rodnom gradu te je prestala slikati. 1943. je zajedno s roditeljima deportirana u sabirni logor na Banjici. 1. lipnja 1944. ubilo ju je osoblje Schutzstaffela na stratištu Jajincima, kamo su odvodili logoraše iz Banjice na smaknuće. Preživjeli članovi njene obitelji i prijatelji sačuvali su joj slike. Iste su poslije izložene 1974. u židovskoj zajednici u Splitu, židovskoj zajednici u Beogradu te 1975. u Židovskom povijesnom muzeju u Beogradu.

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Tina Morpurgo (March 6, 1907 – June 1, 1944) was a notable Croatian painter from Split.[1][2]

Morpurgo was born on March 6, 1907 in Split to the notable Jewish Morpurgo family which originated from Marburg, Germany. After high school she devoted herself to painting and in 1931 she held her first single exhibition which showed over fifty of her works in oil, tempera and drawing. In 1932, Morpurgo attended a private school in Trieste. Morpurgo planned to pursue her schooling and further artistic development in Munich, but due to the rise of Nazism and the economic crisis, she remained in her hometown, and, disillusioned, stopped painting. In 1943 she was deported to the Banjica concentration camp together with her parents. On June 1, 1944, Morpurgo was killed by Schutzstaffel members. Despite this well-known fact, during the time of communist Yugoslavia she was falsely put on the list of the Jasenovac concentration camp victims killed by Ustaše as a part of communist anti-Croatian propaganda. This false information was also accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during a massive unchecked import of data. Her paintings were saved by the surviving members of her family and friends. Later her paintings were exhibited, in 1974, at the Jewish community of Split, at the Jewish community Belgrade, and the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade in 1975.