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Stamenko Djurdjević
Stamenko Đurđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Стаменко Ђурђевић; Krnjevo, near Velika Plana, Kingdom of Serbia, 19 November 1888 – Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 7 April 1941) was a Serbian sculptor and author. Stamenko was one of several Serbian sculptors of his generation at the time, namely Živojin Lukić (1889–1934), Marko Brežanin (1885–1956), Dragomir Arambašić. Biography Stamenko was the son of a farmer Miloje Đurđević and his wife, Anđelija. Besides Stamenko, the Đurđević couple had another son, Nebojša. Father Miloje was a well-known fruit-grower and their mother, a village herbalist. Stamenko married early, in his teens to Danica Radosavljević. They had three sons: Zoran, Nebojša and Miloje. Even as a child, Stamenko showed promise in carving figures from wood. After finishing elementary schooling, he continued at a Gymnasium in Smederevo. It was the sculptor Đorđe Jovanović who encouraged Stamenko to enroll at the Arts and Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krnjevo
Krnjevo is a small town in the Municipalities of Serbia, municipality of Velika Plana, Serbia. By road it is southeast of the Belgrade. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 4,253 people.Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. The area, with its rich black soils, belongs to the Smederevo wine region which also includes Smederevo, Grocka, and Pozarevac. Notable people * Velibor Jonić, a member of the fascist movement ZBOR and a Serbian Commissioner of Education during World War II *Kosta Manojlović (1890–1949), composer * Aleksandar Tirnanić, Yugoslavian footballer References Populated places in Podunavlje District {{PodunavljeRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreten Stojanović
Sreten Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Стојановић; 2 February 1898 – 29 October 1960) was a Serbian sculptor, university professor and art critic. His artistic individuality was best observed in portraits made of various materials. Biography He was born on 15 February 1898 in Prijedor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the house of Orthodox priests who ''preached the faith for strength of people and who imagined Russia to be something that is ours or more beautiful, bigger, more Orthodox, closer to God and more powerful than anything that was German or Turkish'', as he wrote in his autobiography. He inherited such a patriarchal family's firmness and stability, from people who grew up in that very soil and he spent his whole life being so ingrained, not giving up on the deepest and unchanged moral principles. He belonged to the Young Bosnia Movement where he was, as a juvenile pupil of the Tuzla's high school, sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was also shortly engaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simeon Roksandić
Simeon Roksandić (14 May 1874 – 12 January 1943) was a Serbian sculptor and academic, famous for his bronzes and fountains. He is frequently cited as one of the most renowned figures in Serbian and Yugoslavian sculpture. Life and work Roksandić was born in the village of Majske Poljane and schooled in Glina and Zagreb. After discovering an interest in sculputre, he obtained a stipend for studies in Budapest. In 1895, he continued his education in Munich, where he met Djordje Krstić, who encouraged him to move to Belgrade. Since 1898, Roksandić lived and worked in Serbia for most of his life. In 1904, he was one of the founders of the Association of Serbian Artists LADA, alongside Beta Vukanović, Marko Murat, Đorđe Jovanović, Uroš Predić, and others. Roksandić exhibited his artworks as a part of Kingdom of Serbia's pavilion at International Exhibition of Art of 1911. He sculptured the "Unfortunate Fisherman" fountains in Kalemegdan Park in Belgrade, Serbia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto Stijović
Risto Stijović ( sr-cyr, Ристо Стијовић; 8 October 1894 – 20 December 1974) was a Serbian sculptor, considered to be one of the most original artists of his time. Biography He was born in centre of Montenegrin capital Podgorica. In 1912 he enrolled in Serbian school of fine arts in the class of Đorđe Jovanović. Stijović described himself as an ethnic Serb. After the war broke out he joined the Serbian Army and retreated across Albania to Corfu. In 1916 he moved to Marseille, furthering his education at Marseille art school on French government scholarship, and then on to Paris the following year, where he continued at École des Beaux-Arts. He lived for years in Paris, where he met his wife, Jeanette, whom he married in 1922. Considered one of the most talented sculptors of the early 1920s, he exhibited together with Picasso, Matisse, Pompon and Maillol. In 1928 he moved back to Belgrade where he became professor at Third Male Gymnasium. In 1941 he was arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Pešić
Jovan Pešić (24 October 1866 in Bukovac, Novi Sad, Bukovac, Austrian Empire - 4 January 1936 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was a Serbian warrior artist who fought for the liberation of Old Serbia and North Macedonia, Macedonia at the turn of the 20th century (1903-1908), and later in the World War I, Great War. Today he is remembered among as the first modern Serbian cartoonists (the first being Dimitrije Avramović), though totally forgotten until the early 2000s. Early life and work He was a self-taught artist when he first started to study art, sculpture and photography in a craft shop in Novi Sad. He studied under Đorđe Jovanović (sculptor), Đorđe Jovanović. In 1897 Pešić created an eight-page story in caricature (comic strip) showing a sculptor with clay in hand how he created a female figure that suddenly came alive when she began to dance with him. This was inspired by his relationship with Jovanović. More than three decades after his death, Pešić's eight- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Serbian Painters
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 Aralica (1883–1980) * Đorđe Andrejević Kun (1904–1964) * Mika Antić (1932–1986) * Dragoslav Pavle Aksentijević (born 1942) * Marina Abramović (born 1946) * Nataša Atanasković (born 1972) * Emanuil Antonovich (1785–1829) B * Nikola Božidarević (1460–1517) * Dimitrije Bačević (1735–1770) * Georgije Bakalović (1786–1843) * Anastas Bocarić (1864–1944) * Špiro Bocarić (1876–1941) * Jovan Bijelić (c.1884–1964) * Ilija Bašičević (1895–1972) * Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904–1993) * Dimitrije Bratoglic (1765–1831) * Janko Brašić (1906–1994) * Miloš Bajić (1915–1995) * Radivoj Berbakov (1925–2003) * Kossa Bokchan (1925–2009) * Ivana Bašić (born 1986) * Bogdan Bulajić (born 1940) C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade New Cemetery
The New Cemetery ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Ново гробље, Novo groblje) is a cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ... complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian cemetery in Belgrade and as the first architecturally and urbanistically planned cemetery in Serbia. In addition to graves of ordinary citizens, the cemetery complex also includes special sections: military graves from Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–1877), Serbo-Bulgarian War, Balkan Wars and World Wars, the Alley of the Greats and the Alley of Distinguished Citizens, where some of the most important persons in the history of Serbia are buried. Two Jewish cemeteries (a Sephardic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter I Of Serbia
Peter I (; – 16 August 1921) was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later. Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbians as King Peter the Liberator and also as the Old King. Peter was the fifth child and third son of Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and his wife, Persida Nenadović. Prince Alexander was forced to abdicate in 1858, and Peter lived with his family in exile. He fought with the French Foreign Legion in the Franco-Prussian War. He joined as a volunteer under the alias Peter Mrkonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Мркоњић, Petar Mrkonjić) in the Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) against the Ottoman Empire. In 1883, Prince Peter married Princess Ljubica, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro. Ljubica became known as Princess Zorka upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Pašić
Nikola Pašić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Пашић, ; 18 December 1845 – 10 December 1926) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat. During his political career, which spanned almost five decades, he served five times as prime minister of Serbia and three times as prime minister of Yugoslavia, leading 22 governments in total. He played an instrumental role in the founding of Yugoslavia and is considered one of the most influential figures in Serbian twentieth-century history. With 12 years in office, Pašić was the longest-serving prime minister of Serbia. Born in Zaječar, in eastern Serbia, Pašić studied engineering in Switzerland and embraced radical politics as a student at the Polytechnical School in Zürich. On his return to Serbia, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1878 as a member of the People's Radical Party, which was formally organised three years later. After the failed Timok Rebellion against the government of King Milan I, he was sente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubica Vukomanović
Ljubica Vukomanović ( sr-cyr, Љубица Вукомановић; September 1788 – 26 May 1843) was Princess consort of the Principality of Serbia as the wife of Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, and the founder of the Obrenović dynasty, which ruled Serbia in an almost unbroken line from the time of his election as Prince to the May Overthrow in 1903. Ljubica married Miloš in 1805 and became Princess of Serbia on 6 November 1817 until her husband's abdication on 25 June 1839. She had at least seven surviving children. Life She was born in September 1788 in Srezojevci, Serbia, the daughter of wealthy farm owner (of the '' vlasteličići'' class) Radoslav Vukomanović and first wife Marija Damjanović; however, the exact date is unknown. In 1805 she married Miloš Obrenović, who on 6 November 1817 was elected the Prince of Serbia, making her Princess consort. Ljubica was active and influential in Serbian politics. Her marriage, however, was volatile, she often disag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communists
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
