Tina Morpurgo

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| caption = Self-portrait of Tina Morpurgo

| name = Tina Morpurgo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1907|03|06}}

| birth_place = Split, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (now Croatia)

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|06|01|1907|03|06|df=y}}

| death_place = Banjica concentration camp

| death_cause = Murdered in Holocaust

| relations = Vid Morpurgo
(great uncle)

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| occupation = Painter

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| nationality = Croat

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Tina Morpurgo (March 6, 1907 – June 1, 1944) was a Croatian painter from Split.{{harvtxt|Kečkemet|1971|p=}}{{Cite news|last=Rogošić|first=Željko|title=Slavne žene Dalmacije|publisher=Nacional|date=2007-12-20|url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/41119/slavne-zene-dalmacije|access-date=2013-01-25|language=hr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510003722/http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/41119/slavne-zene-dalmacije|archive-date=2013-05-10}}

Morpurgo was born on March 6, 1907, in Split to the notable Jewish Morpurgo family which originated from Maribor, Slovenia (then called Marburg).{{Cite news|last=Tonkin|first=Boyd|title=Boyd Tonkin: The magnificent Morpurgos|work=The Independent|date=2010-08-20|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/boyd-tonkin-the-magnificent-morpurgos-2056968.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/boyd-tonkin-the-magnificent-morpurgos-2056968.html |archive-date=2022-06-21 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2013-08-16}}{{Cite news|last=Kuzmanić|first=Nepo|title=Obitelj Morpurgo, Židovi iz Marburga|publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija|url=http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20020517/feljton02.asp|access-date=2013-08-16}} After high school she devoted herself to painting and in 1931 she held her first single exhibition which showed over fifty of her works in oil, tempera and drawing. In 1932, Morpurgo attended a private school in Trieste. Morpurgo planned to pursue her schooling and further artistic development in Munich, but due to the rise of Nazism and the economic crisis, she remained in her hometown, and, disillusioned, stopped painting. In 1943 she was deported to the Banjica concentration camp together with her parents. On June 1, 1944, Morpurgo was killed by Schutzstaffel members. Her paintings were saved by the surviving members of her family and friends. Later her paintings were exhibited, in 1974, at the Jewish community of Split, at the Jewish community of Belgrade, and the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade in 1975.{{Cite news|last=Gospodnetić|first=Lenka|title=Mirjana Kučer: Splićanke stenju pod muškim jarmom|publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija|date=3 April 2010|url=http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Spektar/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/97747/Default.aspx|access-date=2013-01-25|language=hr}}{{Cite news|last=Wright|first=Lola|title=Velike Splićanke koje je povijest zaboravila|publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija|date=1 February 2012|url=http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Mozaik/tabid/80/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/128288/Default.aspx|access-date=2013-01-25|language=hr}}{{Cite news|last=Pavičić|first=Jurica|title=Ženska povijest Splita|publisher=Jutarnji list|date=10 January 2008|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/template/article/article-print.jsp?id=238289|access-date=2013-01-25|language=hr|archive-date=2014-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512222532/http://www.jutarnji.hr/template/article/article-print.jsp?id=238289|url-status=dead}}