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Oskar Herman was born in 1886 in Zagreb. He left for Munich in 1904, where after preparing in the painting school of Anton Ažbe, in 1905 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, in the drawing class of Johann Harterich. For one term, his teacher was Hugo Freiherr von Habermann, at that time the president of the Munich Secession. From 1907 to 1910, when he finished his course, he took painting lessons with Karl Raupp and Peter Halm. From 1919 he exhibited frequently with the Munich New Secession. The work of Oskar Herman is looked at in Croatian art in the context of the Munich Circle, which also included Miroslav Kraljević, Josip Račić and Vladimir Becić. In 1933 he returned to Zagreb; from 1942 to 1944 he was interned in the camp of Ferramonti-Tarsia. When the war ended, in 1945 he came to Zagreb, where he worked as a curator in the Modern Gallery, from 1945 to 1949. He died in Zagreb in 1974.