Dragutin Đorđević (

Loznica Loznica ( sr-cyrl, Лозница, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city located in the Mačva District of western Serbia, on the right bank of the Drina river. In 2022 the city had a total population of 19,515, while the administrative area had a ...

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, 22 August 1866 -

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, Serbia,

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, 9 April 1933) was a Serbian architect and university professor who worked during the last decade of the

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and the

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. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences from 16 February 1920.. His work is characteristic of the academic art and eclectic styles in Serbia.

Biography

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and

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-trained Đorđević was a well-established professor from the first generation of Belgrade architecture faculty who received a commission for the

Belgrade University Library The University Library ''Svetozar Marković'' () is the main library in the University of Belgrade system, named after Svetozar Marković, a Serbian political activist in the 19th century. It is located on Bulevar kralja Aleksandra, King Alexande ...

based on his pre-

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reputation. His collaborator on the 1919-1926 project was architect

Nikola Nestorović Nikola Nestorović ( sr-cyr, Никола Несторовић, 15 April 1868 Požarevac - 18 February 1957, Belgrade) was a Serbian architect and professor at the Technical Faculty. He is one of the most important architects in Serbia, whose crea ...

, also Karlsruhe and Berlin-trained. Even before he embarked on Belgrade University Library, he and his colleague Andra Stevanović both received a commission in 1912 to design the plans for the building of the

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in ''Kneza Mihaila'' Street no. 35. The project was completed in 1924. Today the monumental building of the highest scientific institution in the country is one of the most representative buildings in the spirit of

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reform and French decorativism of Belgrade architecture. Other equally lucrative commissions followed suit from the Ministry of Construction and Public Works while he was employed as a professor of architecture at his ''alma mater'' -- the

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Achievements in Belgrade

Among his best-known achievements is the building of the Third Belgrade Gymnasium constructed in 1906 in collaboration with Dušan Živanović in an academic style; the building is now included in the list of Cultural monuments of great importance in Serbia of the Republic of Serbia and is also on the list of cultural goods of the city of Belgrade. The building of the

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, located in the street ''

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'' was constructed in

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in collaboration with the architect Andra Stevanović; the building is characterized by its eclectic style which mixes academicism neoclassical, neobaroque and

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

; Due to its value, the Academy is on the list of Protected cultural monuments in Serbia of the Republic of Serbia and on the list of protected cultural property of the City of Belgrade. Dragutin Đorđević also built the Barracks of the 7th regiment in Belgrade, inscribed on the list of cultural goods of the Serbian capital Characteristic of the academic stream of the

interwar years In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( ...

, the Svetozar Marković University Library at 71 ''

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Bulevar kralja Aleksandra ( sr-Cyrl, Булевар краља Александра, "King Alexander Boulevard") is the longest street entirely within the urban limits of Serbian capital Belgrade, with length of 7.5 kilometers. Known for decades ...

'', was completed in 1926 also from plans by Dragutin Đorđević and

All the buildings mentioned are inscribed on the list of the cultural heritage of Serbia and protected as such.

References

{{reflist Serbian architects 1866 births People from Loznica Architects from Belgrade Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1933 deaths Belle Époque