An exhibition of paintings by the Hungarian artist Jozsef Rippl-Ronai was officially opened in the Zagreb Modern Gallery, on Friday.

The Croatian Culture Minister, Nina Obuljen Korzinek, and the Hungarian Human Resources Minister, Zoltan Balog, opened the exhibition.

Organised in cooperation with the Rippl-Ronai Museum in Kaposvar, the painter’s hometown in Hungary, includes over 70 oil and pastel paintings.

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, born in 1861, is best known for having introduced modern artistic movements to Hungarian art. One of his main influences, from his time in Paris, was the French post-Impressionist painter Paul Gaugin.

The exhibition will run through to 13 May in the gallery housed in the Revival-style Vranyczany Palace in the centre of the Croatian capital.