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Stamenko Đurđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Стаменко Ђурђевић;
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, 19 November 1888 –
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, 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),
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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
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. It was the sculptor Đorđe Jovanović who encouraged Stamenko to enroll at the Arts and Crafts School in Belgrade. By 1908, he already exhibited his work at a youth art exhibition, which was praised by critics. After a two- year study in Prague at the Royal
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under the tutelage of Professor
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from 1911–1913, he then left for Paris to enrol at the
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in the class of Professor
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. His art training was interrupted in 1914 when he returned to Serbia to volunteer in the military. During which time he was captured and spent time in captivity. In 1918 shortly after the war ended, he received a Serbian state stipend and went back to Paris to resume his interrupted art studies. There he fell ill and travelled to
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for treatment. He returned to Belgrade to convalesce in 1920, and later went off to Paris once again. He finally came back from his travels abroad in 1922. The same year, he took part in an exhibition with
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, in which he displayed 34 of his works, mostly portraits and busts of prominent and well-known public figures. Subsequently, in 1924, he exhibited his work alone, and the third display of his work was in Belgrade in 1926, with the Export Bank team. A span of twelve years was to elapse before he next displayed his work, which was in 1938, at the collective Exhibition of Workers‘ Cultural Activities, with
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, and Milica Đukić-Topalović wrote reviews about his work, some of which were favourable and other critical.


Sculpture

In the period between 1914 and 1941, he produced three public monuments, two in Belgrade and one in Debrljin. Only his Monument to the Third Call-Up and the same monument by another name—Third-line Conscripts—found in
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Park is still standing, while his monuments to
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and King Peter I were destroyed by
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. In 1924 in Belgrade he held an exhibition of his works, mostly portraits of prominent Serbian characters and personages. His works are familiar to ''connoisseurs'' of art such as the busts of Princess
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, and others. Some 10 of his portraits are preserved at the
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and in Belgrade museums.


Literary work

Stamenko Đurđević was also an author. He wrote poems, fairy tales, novels and dramatic plays. He published his first work in 1919. His published literary works include: * The Mother Anđelija (1919), an epic poem; * The Knight on a White Hose (1927), a legend; * The Head of the Vožd; * Across the Land, poems; * Fairy Tale on the Lake (1933); * Porna (1933); * Semiramis (1933); * Hellish Night, a novel; and * Banović Strahinja, an epic tragedy in five acts (1935)


Sources

* Veljko Petrović, Đurđević Stamenko, Narodna enciklopedija srpsko–hrvatsko–slovenačka, I knjiga, Zagreb 1928, str. 699.


See also

*
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 Arali ...
*
Dragomir Arambašić Dragomir Arambašić (1881–1945) was a Serbian sculptor and painter. Biography Arambašić came from a notable Serbian family, his great-grandfather was Bimbaša Stanko Arambašić of the First Serbian Uprising. His decision to practice scu ...
*
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 ...
* Đorđe Jovanović *
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. ...
*
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. ...
*
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 Roks ...
* Paško Vučetić


References

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