The International Centre of Graphic Arts ( sl, Mednarodni grafični likovni center) in

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was established in 1986 to give the international Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts - which itself has a longer, uninterrupted tradition from 1955 - its own place. Most of its history the director was Zoran Kržišnik. The museum has a rich collection of

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by international modernist artists, which consists of more than four thousand items. Along with such international artists as

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, Nancy Spero, Mangelos,

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, Osip Zadkin, Görgy Galántai and others, the collection includes complete or partial oeuvres of

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, Vladimir Makuc, Danilo Jejčič,

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, Tinca Stegovec, the

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's finest printmakers. Besides its main collection, the museum has a Collection of Prints and Original Printed Ephemera established in 2000, consisting of posters, fanzines and other items, including all artistic newspaper projects of the

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museum "in progress" published in '' Der Standard'' daily from 1990 to 2002 and all issues of the hybrid '' Point d'Ironie'' newspaper.

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