Paja Jovanović

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Portrait around 1900
Car Dušan's wedding, Belgrade National Museum

Pavle "Paja" Jovanović ( Serbian : Павле "Паја" Јовановић; born June 4 . Jul / 16th June  1859 . Greg in Vrsac , then Austria-Hungary , now Serbia ; † thirtieth November 1957 in Vienna ) was a Serbian Austrian painter of realism .

Life

At the age of 15, Paja Jovanović moved to Vienna with his father. Here he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Carl Müller and, apart from a few holiday trips to the Balkans, later also to the Caucasus, North Africa, Italy and Spain spent most of his life. From 1895 on, Jovanović mostly painted historical subjects. After 1905 he only made portraits of wealthy European clients, including Mihailo Pupin . In 1888 he was appointed a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Awards

For his painting "Wounded Montenegrin" shown at the annual exhibition of the Academy in Vienna in 1883 , he received first prize and an imperial scholarship.

Works (selection)

  • Macevanje (around 1883). Sketch, pen on paper, 90.5 × 59 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Arnaut sa Čubikom (The Arnaut with Čubika, 1884 - 1886). Oil on canvas, 36.5 × 43.5см (in the Belgrade Folk Museum)
  • Furor Teutonikus (1889). Heliogravure , 81.7 х 62 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Seoba Srba ( Serbian emigration , 1896). Oil on canvas, 190 × 126см (in the Pančevo Folk Museum
  • Seoba Srba and Seoba Srba I (1908; around 1895). Photogravure ; Sketch, pen on paper, 94.8 х 62.3 - {cm} -; 119 х 84 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Proglašenje Dušanovog zakonika ( Proclamation of the Dušan Law , around 1900.) Oil on canvas 126 × 190см (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Kralj Milutin (1906-1912). Oil on canvas, 131.5 × 201см (in the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Sremski Karlovci )
  • Akt na Crvenom Ogrtacu (1918–1920). Oil on canvas, 115 х 211 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Mars Tito (1952). Sketch, pen on paper, 30.5 х 24 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Vilinska Zemlja - Parsifalov San (1906). Lithography and heliogravure (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Cveće ( flower around 1950). Oil on wooden board, 30.5 × 40.5см (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Potret Kraljice Marije Karađorđević Portrait of Queen Marija Karadjordjević (1925–1930.) Oil on canvas, 210 × 102см (in the Belgrade City Museum)
  • Portret Milutin Milanković (1943). Oil on canvas
  • Portret Milutin Milanković (1945). Pen, paper, lime sketches, 29.8 х 36.7 - {cm} - (in the Belgrade City Museum)

Web links

Commons : Paja Jovanović  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Jovanović, Paja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jovanović, Pavle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian-Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Vršac , Serbia (then Austria-Hungary)
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1957
Place of death Vienna