Foto Tonka
Zagreb, circa 1925
photograph, black & white
inv. no.: 3707
The black-and-white photograph of Vinko Bek was taken at the Tonka photo studio in Zagreb around 1925. Vinko Bek was born in 1862 in Podgajci, in the municipality of Donji Miholjac. He attended elementary school in Cernik, Osijek, and Pécs, and junior general-program secondary school in Osijek. In 1878, he enrolled the Royal Teacher-Training School in Zagreb, which he completed in 1881. He worked as a public-school teacher in Bukevje and later in Zagreb until 1895, when he became a teacher and the head of the Institute for the Education of Blind Children. He was the editor of journals The Friend of the Blind and The Friend of the Blind and Deaf-Mute. From 1899 until his retirement in 1920, he was the director of the Blind Workers’ Home.
Portrait of Vinko Bek
Foto Tonka
Zagreb, circa 1925
photograph, black & white
inv. no.: 3707
The black-and-white photograph of Vinko Bek was taken at the Tonka photo studio in Zagreb around 1925. Vinko Bek was born in 1862 in Podgajci, in the municipality of Donji Miholjac. He attended elementary school in Cernik, Osijek, and Pécs, and junior general-program secondary school in Osijek. In 1878, he enrolled the Royal Teacher-Training School in Zagreb, which he completed in 1881. He worked as a public-school teacher in Bukevje and later in Zagreb until 1895, when he became a teacher and the head of the Institute for the Education of Blind Children. He was the editor of journals The Friend of the Blind and The Friend of the Blind and Deaf-Mute. From 1899 until his retirement in 1920, he was the director of the Blind Workers’ Home.