A survivor of the Dachau Concentration Camp, Zoran Music (1909–2005) turned towards silence and contemplation through painting. After the War, the artist moved to Venice, where he created icon-like portraits of his wife Ida Barbarigo as well as his first unmistakable Cavallini from Dalmatia. Meanwhile, Music traced the erratic lines of the earth’s relief in the hills of Umbria and Tuscany.

When he was signed on by the Galerie de France in 1952, he moved to Paris, where he lived for long periods of time. From 1948 he participated several times in the Venice Biennale, featured with some of his works already in 1955 in the Documenta I in Kassel, participated in numerous other international exhibitions and received various awards.