Sources &
image credits.

This selection was researched on 26 October 2026. The text is an original editorial summary; interviews and press articles are linked to their publishers. Exhibition dates refer to past events.

Biography & books

• Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb — education, disciplines, editorial work and academic profile. Public professional contact email.
• Wikipedia: Milan Trenc · Croatian entry — biographical cross-reference and bibliography. No Wikipedia prose is reproduced.
• OverDrive / Barron’s: The Night at the Museum — book history and 2006-edition cover. The original book dates to 1993.
• Macmillan book listing — Another Night at the Museum.
• Steven Heller, AIGA Voice, 23 January 2007 (PDF) — interview about the original book and film adaptation.

Selected works & images

• Portrait: existing artist website, Milan_Trenc_04.jpeg. Photographer credit was not supplied on the source page.
• Factory Mornings: Lauba exhibition announcement. Exhibition graphic by Milan Trenc, December 2021. Original announcement reproduced without removing its embedded title or dates.
• Spirals: Metro Portal, 13 March 2019. Artwork credited to Milan Trenc. The hero and gallery show a cropped preview; the project viewer shows the complete reference image.
• Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje: Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC). Credits, 2020 release, running time, awards and film still. Production: Studio devet. Cinematography: Ivan Zadro. Trailer linked from the official catalogue.
• Samoća: HAVC film catalogue. Credits, 2010 release, running time and animation still. Production: Croatian Film Association.

Press archive

• Večernji list, 4 December 2025 — ŠPUD’s outdoor American-period illustration exhibition, closing 29 January 2026.
• Tamara Lukina, Večernji list, 3 November 2025 — interactive art and augmented reality at Spirit of Art.
• Boris Vlašić, Globus / Jutarnji list, 16 March 2023 — interview on art and artificial intelligence.

Quoted words

The short opening quote is an excerpt from Trenc’s answer to Steven Heller in AIGA Voice (23 January 2007); the full sentence appears in the book feature. The Croatian quote about art and a kind of miracle is from the Boris Vlašić interview in Globus (16 March 2023), reproduced in its original language. Both are linked alongside the quotations.

About this edition

This is a design preview, not a complete catalogue raisonné. All artwork, photography, book covers and film stills remain the property of their respective rights holders. Reference images are credited here for review; final publication should use approved portfolio masters and confirmed photography credits.

Where overview biographies disagree on exhibition dates, this edition follows the contemporary event announcement. The Hollywood adaptation is distinguished from Trenc’s own work as a film director. No current exhibition, representation or commission availability is implied.

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Editorial drawings collection: twelve works from the supplied archive, WEBSITE TRENC.COM/new/drawing_003.html through drawing_020.html (selected pages). Original page titles are retained where meaningful. The collection introduction is editorial copy, not an artist quotation.

New York Times and Published Covers collections: selected images and labels from WEBSITE TRENC.COM/new/NY_Times and /covers in the supplied archive. Editorial introductions describe the selected images; no new artist quotations are added.

Berlin 1936 and Desert Storm: artwork and image order from the supplied website archive, new/Berlin_1936/photos.xml and new/Desert_Storm/photos.xml. Publication history from Trenc_Katalog-Catalogue.pdf (2005 retrospective). Images contain unlettered speech balloons.

Photographic Collages and Small Illustrations: galleries from TRENC Webpage/phtc_nav.html and spots_nav.html in the supplied archive; original selection and ordering retained. Captions use archive page references.

Line Drawings: ten works from TRENC Webpage/altline_nav.html in the supplied archive. Original gallery sequence retained; captions are archive page references.

Animation pages: Studio_devet/studio_eleph.html, studio_lone.html and studio_night.html and their image galleries. Museum animation remains labelled as archival preproduction. Fortune essay: full original English from new/fortune_text.html, with a labelled Croatian translation.

Museum project: archived book covers; Steven Heller’s AIGA Voice interview (23 January 2007); Penguin book listing; Macmillan’s Another Night at the Museum listing; OverDrive’s original-publication information. Edition dates distinguished from first publication.

Expanded archive selections

Večernji list: thirty illustrations from the supplied VEČERNJI folder. Fortune and New York Times: thirty selected works each from the original website galleries. Editorial drawings: all twenty original drawing pages. Archive references are not new artwork titles or publication dates.

Maljčiki, Koščak, Milan Blenton, The Legend of Alfred J. Purfrock and Zen Stories: selected reproductions and details from the artist-supplied Milan Trenc: Retrospective 1980–2005 catalogue, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, 2005. Dates and publication context follow the catalogue captions and exhibit list. Catalogue essay by Darko Glavan; exhibition curator Iva Sudec. Artwork extracts retain original lettering; prose on the new pages is an editorial summary.

Additional archive images

Line drawings now includes seventeen distinct works; Photographic Collages includes thirteen. The first ten in each retain the old gallery order, followed by additional images from the corresponding supplied img_line and img_photo folders. Duplicate exports and navigation graphics were excluded. Filename captions remain archive references, not confirmed titles.

The Big Time / Veliki provod

New bilingual animation project: poster detail and two storyboard reproductions from the supplied 2005 retrospective catalogue, PDF pages 34–36 (printed pages 32–34). The 1990 date follows the artwork captions and exhibit list. Selected catalogue reproductions only; no film playback is implied.

Start and BusinessWeek

Selected catalogue reproductions from the artist-supplied 2005 retrospective: Start cover, issue 568, 27 October 1990 (PDF page32); Bureaucracy in Space, Start, 1987 (PDF page61); Asia Logs On and Europe Races, BusinessWeek, 1999 (PDF page68). Original publication layouts are retained; crops remove catalogue margins. These are selections, not complete publication archives.

Retrospective exhibition selection

From the artist-supplied Retrospektiva folder: TRENC_panoi_01–19.pdf. The overview preserves complete exhibition panels with printer marks removed; publication galleries use individual artwork crops. The featured cover is page 1 of Trenc_Katalog-Catalogue.pdf, the 1980–2005 retrospective catalogue. The panel files do not establish an exhibition date. Blank panel 00 is omitted. Labels follow the panel captions; these are selected works, not complete publication archives.