Paintings by Eduard Lind from the Collection of the former Museum Society in Maribor

The article focuses on the origin, date, and content of the works produced by Eduard Lind (1827–1904), a Maribor-based painter of German descent, that the Museum Society Maribor (Museumsverein Marburg) acquired from the time of its founding in 1902 and until 1923. The main written source for the interpretation of the above-mentioned paintings, which are currently kept in the Maribor Regional Museum, is the inventory book of the Museum Society in Maribor (Grundbuch des Museum-Vereines in Marburg), which was used during the period under discussion. The information collected from the inventory book, the study of preserved paintings, written sources, and the survey of Maribor’s civil registers have made it possible for us to establish a link between the discussed Lind’s works and concrete people that is, male and female inhabitants of Maribor in the second half of the nineteenth century and their status in society.