Sava Stojkov ( sr-cyr, Сава Стојков; 29 March 1925 – 20 August 2014) was a
Serbia
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naive art
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painter, known for his environment depictions, as well as for his pre-
photorealistic
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tendencies.
Biography
Sava Stojkov was born on 29 March 1925 in
Sombor
Sombor ( sr-Cyrl, Сомбор, ; hu, Zombor; rue, Зомбор, Zombor) is a city and the administrative center of the West Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city has a total population of 47,623 (), while ...
,
Kingdom SHS (now
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
), and began painting from an early age. His first individual exhibition took place in 1945. Since then he has exhibited individually at over 500 exhibitions in Serbia and the countries of former Yugoslavia, as well as in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, Monaco, the US, Japan, South Korea, India, Morocco and Venezuela. Stojkov has exhibited at over 650 group exhibitions and received over 40 awards for his work worldwide. Ten books, monographs and 12 painting maps were published about his art and a large number of documentary films, radio and television shows were recorded. Stojkov was one of the most popular painters in Serbia and in the region. He painted landscapes and plains of Vojvodina, portraits of its people, and occasionally worked in specific oil-on-glass technique. For his 85th birthday the Faculty of Education in Sombor opened the Gallery of Sava Stojkov, in the building of Preparandija, where a permanent retrospective exhibition takes is found, with more than 100 paintings made during the seven decades of his artistic career.
Sava Stojkov died on 20 August 2014. in
Sombor
Sombor ( sr-Cyrl, Сомбор, ; hu, Zombor; rue, Зомбор, Zombor) is a city and the administrative center of the West Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city has a total population of 47,623 (), while ...
.
References
Further reading
* Slikar portreta i pejzaža vojvodine – Painter of Portraits and Landscapes of Vojvodina
onograph with selected texts about Sava Stojkov's painting style(Novi Sad, 2004)
* Sava Stojkov : Vojvodina zauvek – Sava Stojkov : Vojvodina Forever
elected notes about Sava Stojkov's painting style(Novi Sad, 2008)
* Sava Stojkov – Quiet Water of the Mostonga (monograph, Podgorica – Sombor 2009)
* A Compliment to the Plain (Painting Map, Sombor 2009)
* Plain Dwellers (Painting map, Sombor 2009)
* Sava Stojkov – Horizons of the Plains (Catalog of Exhibition in European Parliament, Brussels, 2011, 22 November)
External links
* https://www.facebook.com/savastojkov
Biography and Awards(Bio in
Serbian, Awards in English)
Selection of Works
Serbian painters
1925 births
2014 deaths
People from Sombor
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