Pavle or Pavel Đurković (1772, Baja, Austria-Hungary – 1830, Odessa, Russia) was a Serbian painter, portraitist and iconographer who distinguished himself in the iconography of monasteries and portraits of great personalities (mostly Serbs).
His greatest work was the iconostasis of the church in
Vršac
Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while ...
and
Bela Crkva from around 1792. Đurković "icon painter from Buda", because from 1793. he painted icons on the iconostasis of the White Church of Saint Peter and Paul.
Work
He traveled to large cities and towns and portrayed wealthier citizens. Thus, in 1811, he made a portrait of
Archimandrite Pavle Hadžić. In 1812, he worked in
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...
for the
Karamata family, and in 1816 he portrayed
Vuk Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the moder ...
and
Lukijan Musicki in
Šišatovac. In 1820, he painted
Metropolitan Stratimirović in
Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danu ...
.
After 1820, he traveled to Wallachia and Russia, painting along the way, and settled in Odessa, where his work went very well, where he progressed as an artist and made an extraordinary portrait of Professor
Atanasij Stojković, who may have invited him to Russia, as one of his last works and as proof of his art of portraiture.
At the invitation of
Prince Miloš on April 23, 1823, he arrived in
Serbia
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to portray him and his family -
Princess Ljubica and daughters Savka and Stanko. The artist worked in
Kragujevac and
Belgrade, where he worked at the prince's request. On March 21, 1824, Đurković finished the portrait of Prince Miloš. It was the second known painting in a row in liberated Serbia, after the
Second Serbian Uprising
The Second Serbian Uprising ( sr, Други српски устанак / ''Drugi srpski ustanak'', tr, İkinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re ...
.
Death
He died in 1830. in city of Odessa (modern day
Ukraine
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, then part of
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
), he was 57/58 years old when he died.
Gallery
File:Pavel djurkovic Christ.jpg, Pavel Đurković - ''Christ Being Removed from the Cross''
File:Atanasije Stojkovic by Djurkovic.jpg, Pavel Đurković - ''Atanasije Stojković
Atanasije Stojković (September 20, 1773 in Ruma, Austrian Empire – September 25, 1832 in Kharkov, Imperial Russia) was a Serbian, Austrian and Russian writer, pedagogue, scholar, physicist, mathematician and astronomer of Serb origin. He is con ...
''
File:Knez Milos Obrenovic.jpg, Pavel Đurković - ''Miloš Obrenović
Miloš, Milos, Miłosz or spelling variations thereof is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Given name
Sportsmen
* Miłosz Bernatajtys, Polish rower
* Miloš Bogunović, Serbian footballer
* Miloš Budaković, Serbian ...
''
File:Вук Стефановић Караџић.1816.jpg, Pavel Đurković - ''Vuk Karadžić'' (1816)
File:Pavel Đurković - Žena sa crvenim šalom (Jelisaveta Vasilijević), 1817.png, Pavel Đurković - ''A woman with a red scarf'', (1817)
See also
*
List of painters from Serbia
This is a list of notable Serbian painters.
A
* Nikola Aleksić (1808–1873)
* Dimitrije Avramović (1815–1855)
* Ljubomir Aleksandrović (1828–1890)
* Stevan Aleksić (1876–1923)
* Dragomir Arambašić (1881–1945)
* Stojan Arali ...
*
Serbian art
Serbian art refers to the visual arts of the Serbs and their nation-state Serbia. The medieval heritage includes Byzantine art, preserved in architecture, frescos and icons of the many Serbian Orthodox monasteries. In the Early modern period, S ...
*
Paja Jovanović
Pavle "Paja" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Павле "Паја" Јовановић; ; 16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957) was a Serbian painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: '' The Wounded Montenegrin'' (1882), '' Decorating of the Bride'' ...
*
Obrenović
External links
History of Serbian painting
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1772 births
1830 deaths
18th-century Serbian painters
18th-century male artists
19th-century Serbian painters
Serbian male painters
Habsburg Serbs
People from Baja, Hungary
Portrait painters
19th-century Serbian male artists