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Kosta Josipović
Kosta Josipović (2 May 1887, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia – 7 August 1919, Skopje, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was a Serbian Impressionist painter. Biography Kosta was born in 1887 in Belgrade, in a clerical family. As a talented person, he studied painting with Rista Vukanović in the first generation of students at the School of Arts and Crafts. For that school - a newly constructed building, he later made decorative elements. He continued his education at the age of 25, in Germany, with a state scholarship, where (since May 1912) he was in Munich Academy of Fine Arts in the class of professor Hugo von Habermann. At that time he befriended Živorad Nastasijević, Mihailo Milovanović and other Serbian art students who left Germany either in 1912 or 1914 for Serbia to join the military at the outbreak of the First Balkan War, Second Balkan War and the Great War. Before and after returning from Munich, he lived and worked in Belgrade. He taught drawing - graph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Josipovic , a Hindu caste
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Kosta may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Kosta (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname * Kosta (surname), a list of people Places * Kosta, Estonia, a village * Kosta, Greece, a community * Kosta, Sweden, a village Other uses * Kosta Boda, a glassworks in Sweden * Kosta (architectural feature), in Hindu temples See also * * Costa (other) * Costas (other) * Koshta Kosta (also spelt as Kosti) are a Hindu caste found in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. Origin Koshta (Koshti) are Dewangans who are into Kosa silk business wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Exhibition Of Modern Decorative And Industrial Arts
The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts () was a specialized exhibition held in Paris, France, from April 29 (the day after it was inaugurated in a private ceremony by the President of France) to November 8, 1925 (Originally the event was scheduled to end on October 25, but since it was visited by over 16 million people by the end of October, it was extended for two more weeks). It was designed by the French government to highlight the new ''modern style'' of architecture, interior decoration, furniture, glass, jewelry and other decorative arts in Europe and throughout the world. Many ideas of the international avant-garde in the fields of architecture and applied arts were presented for the first time at the exposition. The event took place between the esplanade of Les Invalides and the entrances of the Grand Palais and , and on both banks of the Seine. There were 15,000 exhibitors from twenty different countries, and it was visited by over sixteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Miličević
Kosta Miličević ( sr-Cyrl, Коста Миличевић; 3 June 1877 – 12 February 1920) was a Serbian Impressionism, Impressionist painter, known mostly for his landscapes. Biography Kosta Miličević was born to a clerical family, with a history of service in the priesthood. As a young man, he went to Belgrade, where he studied with Kiril Kutlik who operated a famous painting school. He continued his training, under difficult financial conditions, in Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Prague, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Vienna, where he worked with the portrait painter, Heinrich Streblow (1862-1925) and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Munich. Until 1910, he was an informal student at the arts and crafts school of Rista and Beta Vukanović. That same year, he became a member of , an art association. In his early period, he painted in the Academicism, Academic style, as taught in Germany, then was attracted to Art Nouveau. After becoming acquainted with the works of Nadežda Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksa Šantić
Aleksa Šantić ( sr-Cyrl, Алекса Шантић, (); 27 May 1868 – 2 February 1924) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing national awareness of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Serbs, social injustice, nostalgic love, and the Yugoslavism, unity of the South Slavs. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine (1896–1901). Šantić was one of the leading persons of Serbian literary and national movement in Mostar. In 1914 Šantić became a member of the Serbian Royal Academy. Early life Aleksa Šantić was born 1868 into a Herzegovinian Serb family, in Mostar, at the time, under the Ottoman Empire. His father, Risto, was a merchant; his mother, Mara, came from Mostar's well-off Aničić family. Aleksa had two brothers, Jeftan and Jakov, and one sister, Radojka, known as Persa; another sister, Zorica, died in infancy. Just as Šantić turned 10 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paja Jovanović
Pavle "Paja" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Павле "Паја" Јовановић; ; 16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957) was a Serbian realist painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: '' The Wounded Montenegrin'' (1882), '' Decorating of the Bride'' (1886), '' The Takovo Uprising'' (1894), '' Migration of the Serbs'' (1896) and ''The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex'' (1900). As one of the best European painters of oriental scenes, Paja at the end of the 19th century turned to painting historical events of Serbian history. Paja was also the premier portraitist of Europe after 1905. He painted the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria 15 times. He painted royalty, major industrialists, scientists, bankers, oil barons and monopolists, including certain heirs to the Standard Oil fortune in the United States. He was a very sought-after portraitist world-wide, which made him incredibly wealthy in his lifetime. Many European and international museums carry his works, signed under va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mionica
Mionica ( sr-cyr, Мионица, ) is a town and municipality located in the Kolubara District of western Serbia. , the population of the town is 1,590, while population of the municipality is 12,061 inhabitants. Geography The township of Mionica is located from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. With an area of , it is bordering the Maljen and Suvobor mountains to the South and has access to the Kolubara river, Sava region and the Panonian plain to the North. While the Serbs make up for a large majority of the population, the Roma make up a significant minority, while there are smaller populations of ethnic Montenegrins, Croats, Hungarians, Macedonians, Slovenians, Germans and Albanians. Demographics According to the 2011 census results, the municipality of Mionica has 14,335 inhabitants. Ethnic groups The ethnic composition of the municipality: Economy Mionica's economy is predominantly agricultural. Its primary activities are the fruit orchards and raising cattle. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolubara
The Kolubara ( sr-cyr, Колубара, ) is a long river in western Serbia; it is an eastern, right tributary to the Sava river. Due to the many long tributaries creating a branchy system within the river's drainage basin, the short Kolubara drains relatively large area of . It is part of the larger Black Sea drainage. The river is not navigable, but its valley is very important for transportation. Here are located Belgrade-Valjevo road, parts of Belgrade-Šabac road, Ibarska magistrala (Highway of Ibar) and the Belgrade-Bar railway. The Kolubara was the site of one of the major battles on the Balkans in the World War I, the Battle of Kolubara in 1914. There is a game hunting ground "Kolubara" in the valley of the river, on the territory of the Lazarevac municipality. Watershed The Kolubara is formed by two small rivers, the Obnica and Jablanica. ''Obnica'' is the river in Western Serbia that springs at the foot of the mountain Medvednik. It flows eastward, through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constituencies, Christian churches. The majority of the population in Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina are Baptism, baptised members of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is organized into metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitanates and eparchies, located primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia. Other congregations are located in the Serb diaspora. The Serbian Patriarch serves as first among equals in his church. The current patriarch is Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, Porfirije, enthroned on 19 February 2021. The Church achieved Autocephaly, autocephalous status in 1219, under the leadership of Saint Sava, becoming the independent Archbishopric of Žiča. Its status was elevated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to ''En plein air, ''plein air'''' (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting ''Impression, Sunrise, Impression, soleil levant'', which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon (Paris), Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Front
The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria. The expedition came too late and with insufficient force to prevent the fall of Serbia and was complicated by the internal political crisis in Kingdom of Greece, Greece (the National Schism). Eventually, a stable front was established, running from the Albanian Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast to the Struma River, pitting a Allied Army of the Orient, multinational Allied force against the Bulgarian army, which was at various times bolstered with smaller units from the other Central Powers. The Macedonian front remained stable, despite local actions, until the Vardar offensive, Allied offensive in September 1918 resulted in Bulgaria capitulating and the liberation of Serbia. Background Following the assassinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bizerte
Bizerte (, ) is the capital and largest city of Bizerte Governorate in northern Tunisia. It is the List of northernmost items, northernmost city in Africa, located north of the capital Tunis. It is also known as the last town to remain under French Tunisia, French control after the rest of the country won its independence from France. The city had 162,053 inhabitants in 2014. Names The classical name of Bizerte, Hippo, is the latinization of names, latinization of a Punic language, PunicPerseus Digital Library Perseus.tufts.edu name (, ), probably related to the word ''ûbôn'', meaning "harbor". To distinguish it from Hippo Regius (the modern Annaba, in Algeria), the Greeks and Romans used several epithets. Scylax of Caryanda mentions it as and ("Hippo the City").< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
