Dom Mike Alasa
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| place | Belgrade , Serbia |
| architect | Petar Bajalovic |
The Dom Mike Alasa is Mihailo Petrović's home . The building in Belgrade's Kosančićev Venac district is a listed building.
The construction of the house
The house in the Belgrade district of Kosančićev venac was built in 1910 for Mihailo Petrović , also known by the name Mika Alas, who lived and worked there and died there. It was built on the site of the demolished house of his grandfather Novica Lazarević, who held a higher priestly rank. The mathematician, scientist and fisherman spent almost his entire life in this place and it was in this house that he created his most important works.
During the further modernization of the Kosančićev venac district, the design of the new house was drawn up by the architect Petar Bajalović , who was then a lecturer at Belgrade University. After completing his studies at the Technical University in Karlsruhe, he returned to Serbia , where he realized a number of important projects in addition to the house of Mika Alas: the house of Leona Panajot on Francuska ulica in Belgrade, the exhibition pavilion of the Kingdom of Serbia at the international exhibition in Rome, the extension of the Stanković Music School and the Sveti Sava Society building on Dušanova ulica, the Kolarac Cooperative, the Faculty of Law, etc.
Although it was at the beginning of Bajalović's career, Mika Alas's house already showed the skill of the architect at that time. In the basic scheme it was a typical Belgrade single-family house with one floor, the main part facing the street and a wing in the courtyard. Above the balcony door is a circular field with small red and white panels arranged like a chessboard. At the top is a woman's head, from whose hair a floral ornament develops. Most of the cellar was planned as a wine cellar. Mika Alas used this cellar to store wine from his vineyards on Topčidersko Brdo. On the landing of the entrance hall there were once recesses in the wall with figures of Napoleon Bonaparte and Pasquale Paoli , whom Petrovic, who was trained in France, particularly valued. The balcony, with a view of the Sava - Danube estuary from the study, was also a wish of the mathematician, as was the carved wood carp in the front door (Petrovic was known as a fishing specialist).
The history and importance of the house
In addition to Mihailo Petrović, his sister Mara lived in the house with her husband Živojin Perić , who was also educated in France and was an important Belgrade lawyer and an active politician. Important intellectuals from home and abroad met here to exchange ideas. But Petrovic also made it a focal point for people from different walks of life to meet. As a memorial, it is also a reminder of a meeting place for the most popular personalities of old Belgrade. In front of the house on the other side of the street is the bust of Mika Alas, a work by the sculptor Aleksandar Zarina from 1969. The house of Mika Alas has been declared a cultural monument.
credentials
- ↑ M. Milanković, Memories, Experiences and Insights, Institute for School Books and Teaching Aids, Belgrade, 1997.
literature
- Documentation ZZSKGB, SK 85
- Dragan Trifunović, The Bard of Mathematics in Serbia, Mihailo Petrović Alas, Institute for School Books and Teaching Aids, Belgrade 1991.
- Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia 6, Zagreb 1965.
- K. Ćirić, The Home of Mika Alas, Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade, Belgrade 2012.
Web links
- Dom Mike Alasa Information from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Belgrade (PDF, Serbian / English)
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 20 ° 27 ′ 37.5 ″ E