{"id":8045,"date":"2026-10-11T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=8045"},"modified":"2026-10-11T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:46:08","slug":"ddenko-ukmar-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2026\/10\/11\/ddenko-ukmar-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zdenko Ukmar (Croatia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8053\" class=\"alignright fixed\" style=\"width: 187px;\">\n<div class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8053 \" src=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-56x75.jpg 56w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-258x344.jpg 258w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-112x149.jpg 112w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UKI_-NEW1-1-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Exhibit : <a href=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/croatian-match-industry\/\">Croatian Match Industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was born in Osijek on December 11, 1950. I completed my primary and technical secondary education there, followed by studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. Afterward, I worked in Germany as the manager of an electrical workshop (supervising around 130 technicians).<\/p>\n<p>After eight years, I returned to Osijek and worked for the Univac YU representative office, handling computer installation and repair across Europe and attending seminars in cities such as Vienna, Zurich, and Birmingham. I then moved to the Digital representative office in Ljubljana, where I performed similar work. I retired at the age of 65.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8052\" class=\"alignleft fixed\" style=\"width: 225px;\"><a class=\"zoom-hover fb\" data-fancybox-group=\"post-8045\" data-fancybox-title=\"My father&#8217;s albums\" href=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8052 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-56x75.jpg 56w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-258x344.jpg 258w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-112x149.jpg 112w, https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/K_-1-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>My father&#8217;s albums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My father collected matchbox labels while working at the Drava and later the Dolac factory. Back in the 1950s, he was one of the world&#8217;s major collectors, and I inherited a collection of 50,000 distinct labels\u2014mostly in sets\u2014arranged in specially made albums (30 albums in total).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/on-line-exhibition\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to return to the Exhibition Catalogue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibit : Croatian Match Industry I was born in Osijek on December 11, 1950. I completed my primary and technical secondary education there, followed by studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. Afterward, I worked in Germany as the manager of an electrical workshop (supervising around 130 technicians). After eight years, I returned [&hellip;] <a href=\"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2026\/10\/11\/ddenko-ukmar-croatia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<i class=\"icon-arrow-line-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-line-exhibitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}