Vasa Ostojić or Vasilije Ostojić ( sr-cyr, Васа/Василије Остојић; 1730–1791) was a Serbian Baroque painter of icons and frescoes.
Life
Ostojić was born in
Sremski Karlovci,
Archduchy of Austria
The Archduchy of Austria (german: Erzherzogtum Österreich) was a major Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, principality of the Holy Roman Empire and the nucleus of the Habsburg monarchy. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy was centered at th ...
in 1730.
He worked on churches in Sremski Karlovci with monk-painter
Amvrosije Janković
Ambrozije or Amvrosije Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Амброзије/Амвросије Јанковић; born around 1730 in Sečuj, a village in Hungary) was a Serbian painter-iconographer.
Life and work
He was educated at Szentendre in the Seminary o ...
. He was once
Dimitrije Bačević's pupil and assistant.
His best-known works are the
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
of the Assumption (''Uspenska crkva'') in
Novi Sad, St. Nicholas in
Irig and
Neradin
Neradin () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Irig municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority with a population of 551 people (2002 census).
Trivia
Nikola Bizumić inventor of the ...
(1760), then the iconostasis in the Orthodox church in
Voganj
Voganj () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Ruma municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has the population of 1,506 (2011 census).
Location
The village is located west of its municipal seat, town of R ...
and the iconostasis in the monastery church of
Rakovac, the iconostasis of the
Church of Saint Demetrius in
Buda
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(lost in the Great Tabán Fire of 1810), and arguably the most important one, the iconostasis in the
Annunciation Church in
Szentendre
Szentendre () is a riverside town in Pest County, Hungary, between the capital city Budapest and Pilis Mountains, Pilis-Visegrád Mountains. The town is known for its museums (most notably the :hu: Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Open- ...
.
Ostojić was under the influences of Russian and Ukrainian Baroque masters.
Later in life, he was ennobled for his artistic achievements.
Ostojić died in
Novi Sad, Archduchy of Austria in 1791.
See also
*
List of painters from Serbia
References
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1730 births
1791 deaths
People from Sremski Karlovci
18th-century Serbian painters
18th-century male artists
Artists from Novi Sad
Habsburg Serbs