Svetislav Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Светислав Јовановић; 15 March 1861 – 1933) was a Serbian Realist painter.

Biography

He was born on March 15th, 1861 in

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. He was the brother of the famous Serbian painter

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'' ...

and Milan Jovanović, the most famous Serbian photographer of the 19th century. He finished high school in

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, where he began his studies in painting. He continued his studies in 1879 in Petrograd,

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(with his brother Paja Jovanović) and

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at the Zillian Academy. He spent most of his life in Paris, where he lived for fifty years. He was especially esteemed in Paris, where he lived and was gladly accepted into the highest circles of France. One of his closest friends was the son of the President of the French Republic, Sadik Karno. Svetislav Jovanović was decorated in 1928 with the French Order of the Legion of Honor, and the Kingdom of Serbia awarded him the highest rank: the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of Saint Sava. Svetislav Jovanović made a self-portrait of himself in a fencing suit with a brush in his hands. Namely, he was not only an artist but also a swimmer, rider and swordsman with worldwide fame at the time. In Paris, Svetislav won the highest championship titles in 1904 and 1907 as a swordsman. About this, Gaston Renar, Jovanović's biographer, who places him among the world's most celebrated swordsmen, writes: "Hundreds of the defeated dropped their weapons under Jovanović's blows." swordsmen of the world such as Boda, Lana, Busea. That all this was not an exaggeration can be seen from the fact that Jovanović was the president of the largest and most powerful fencing club in France - the "Paris Fencing Club", which brought together personalities from the highest circles of France. Jovanović was elected to the post as a foreign citizen, although the rules explicitly stipulated that the president could only be French. Jovanović died in Paris in 1933 and was buried in the Perlausez Cemetery, where the site is only for the most respected.http://www.macevanje.org/macevanje_svetislav_jovanovic.htm Svetislav Jovanović Biography

Works

*''Prelje'' (-1899) *''Polazak u lov'' (1899) *''Ašikovanje'' (1901) *''Albanac'' (1905) *''Orijentalka'' (1905–10) *''Mlada crnogorka'' (1910) *''Autoportret'' (1921)

Gallery

Prelje, Svetislav Jovanović.jpg, Prelje (B&W copy) File:Polazak u lov, Svetislav Jovanović.jpg, Polazak u lov (B&W copy)

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