Pavle or Pavel Đurković (1772 – 1830) was a Serbian painter, portraitist and iconographer who distinguished himself in the iconography of monasteries and portraits of great personalities (mostly Serbs). His greatest work was the iconostasis of the church in

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and Bela Crkva from around 1792. Đurković "icon painter from Buda", because from 1793. he painted icons on the iconostasis of the White Church of Saint Peter and Paul.

Biography

Đurković was born in Baja,

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. He traveled to large cities and towns and portrayed wealthier citizens. Thus, in 1811, he made a portrait of Archimandrite Pavle Hadžić. In 1812, he worked in

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for the Karamata family, and in 1816 he portrayed

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and Lukijan Musicki in Šišatovac. In 1820, he painted Metropolitan Stratimirović in

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. After 1820, he traveled to Wallachia and Russia, painting along the way, and settled in Odessa, where his work went very well, where he progressed as an artist and made an extraordinary portrait of Professor Atanasij Stojković, who may have invited him to Russia, as one of his last works and as proof of his art of portraiture. At the invitation of Prince Miloš on April 23, 1823, he arrived in

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to portray him and his family - Princess Ljubica and daughters Savka and Stanko. The artist worked in

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and

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, where he worked at the prince's request. On March 21, 1824, Đurković finished the portrait of Prince Miloš. It was the second known painting in a row in liberated Serbia, after the

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. He died in 1830. in city of Odessa (modern day

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, then part of

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), he was 57/58 years old when he died.

Gallery

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Atanasije Stojković Atanasije Stojković ( sr-Cyrl, Атанасије Стојковић, ; 20 September 1773 – 25 September 1832) was a Serbian, Austrian and Russian writer, pedagogue, scholar, physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is considered the founde ...

'' File:Knez Milos Obrenovic.jpg, Pavel Đurković - '' Miloš Obrenović'' File:Вук Стефановић Караџић.1816.jpg, Pavel Đurković - ''Vuk Karadžić'' (1816) File:Pavel Đurković - Žena sa crvenim šalom (Jelisaveta Vasilijević), 1817.png, Pavel Đurković - ''A woman with a red scarf'', (1817)

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History of Serbian painting
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