Vertical sundial on the facade of the building in Tkalčićeva street.
After World War II, at the site of a former southernmost mill there was arranged a small square. In 1954 the idea occurred to highlight the square with a sundial. Prof. Ernest Tomašević entrusted the design of the sundial to Božidar Jušić, his student, undergraduate at the Painting Department of the Academy of Applied Arts. It was his graduate work. The calculations for the sundial were preformed by prof. Leo Randić. Author was helped by Lidija Laforest and Valerija Baho, colleagues from the same class APU, and present wife Melita.
The sundial in the shape of a pentagon was incorporated into the facade of the building, roofing and windows. What followed was an hour scale painted in array of rainbow colors on the fresh plaster, in fresco technique. In subsequent minor revisions, binder in fresco colors were fresh cottage cheese and lime, mixed with a spatula. Symbols of months are placed along the curve of characteristic shadows in two vertical rows. Drawing on the sundial was carved with scraper. Some lines were painted black with casein paint, and some remained white. The Sun was formed by compressing the copper and eventually patinated. In the center of the Sun, copper gnomon is anchored to the ring. The sundial was completed on November 3, 1955.
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