Permanent exhibitions / The Origins of Institutional Care for the Blind

Portrait of Vinko Bek

Title:
Portrait of Vinko Bek

Description:
Foto Tonka
Zagreb, around 1925
photograph, black&white
20 x 15.5 cm
F 3707

Vinko Bek (19 November 1862, Podgajci Podravski, Municipality of Donji Miholjac – 15 October 1935, Zagreb). He was first a teacher at the public school in Bukevje and later in Zagreb until 1895 when he became a teacher and head of the Institute for Education of Blind Children. From 1899 until his retirement in 1920 he was the director of the Blind Workers’ Home. (N.Ć.)