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Todor Manojlović
Todor "Todoš" Manojlović (Veliki Bečkerek, Austria-Hungary, February 17, 1883 – Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, 27 March 1968) was a poet, playwright, essayist and art critic. He laid the foundations of modern Serbian drama with his first major work "Centrifugal Player" (1930). He is considered to be an important representative of European values and trends in Serbian culture. Family Todor came from the Manojlović family, who lived in Bečkerek in Michael Pupin Street. His parents were attorney Nikola "Niko" Manojlović and Sofija "Soka" Manojlović, née Petrović. They both died of severe illness, after 19 years of marriage. Sofija's sisters Linka Krsmanović and Olga Putić, as well as brother Joca Petrović, immediately took over the responsibilities of caring for them while they were still in their teens. Education Todor became a recipient of the "Avramović Foundation", one of 50 theological scholarships granted by the Serbian Patriarchate then located in Sremski Karlovci. Beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), Saint-Louis (FR-68), Weil am Rhein (DE-BW) , twintowns = Shanghai, Miami Beach , website = www.bs.ch Basel ( , ), also known as Basle ( ),french: Bâle ; it, Basilea ; rm, label=Sutsilvan, Basileia; other rm, Basilea . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 175,000 inhabitants. The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many museums, including the Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. * February – '' The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi is first published complete in book form, in Italy. * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power ( TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevich
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch ( sr, Кнез Божидар Карађорђевић / ''Knez Božidar Karađorđević''; 11 January 1862 – 2 April 1908) was a Serbian artist, art writer, world traveller, and member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. He gave singing and drawing lessons and later earned his living as an art critic and translator. He was a contributor to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', ''Le Figaro'', ''La Revue de Paris'', ''Revue des Revues'', ''Magazine of Art'', and other publications. Life Prince Bojidar belonged to the senior line of the Karađorđević dynasty (his older brother was Prince Alexis Karađorđević). He was the second son of Prince George Karađorđević and his wife Sara Karađorđević (born Sara Anastasijević). His grandfather Prince Aleksa was the eldest son of Karađorđe Petrović, the founder of the House of Karađorđević and leader of the First Serbian Uprising. Prince Bojidar lived in France for most of his life as the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreten Stojanović
Sreten Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Стојановић; 2 February 1898 – 29 October 1960) was a Serbian sculptor and art critic. His artistic individuality was best observed in portraits made of various materials. Biography He was born on 15 February 1898 in Prijedor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the house of Orthodox priests who ''"preached the faith for strength of people and who imagined Russia to be something that is ours or more beautiful, bigger, more Orthodox, closer to God and more powerful than anything that was German or Turkish”'', as he wrote in his autobiography. He inherited such a patriarchal family's firmness and stability, from people who grew up in that very soil and he spent his whole life being so ingrained, not giving up on the deepest and unchanged moral principles. He belonged to the Young Bosnia Movement where he was, as a juvenile pupil of the Tuzla's high school, sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was also shortly engaged adventurously in na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rastko Petrović
Rastko Petrović (1898-1949) was a Serbian poet and writer. After serving in the Serbian Army in World War I, he studied law in Paris and became a diplomat. Based at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, D.C. during World War II, he remained in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ... after the war and died there in 1949. In 1986, after official recognition, his remains were brought to Belgrade. Works * ''Burleska gospodina Peruna, boga groma'' (A burlesque of Lord Perun, god of thunder), 1921. * ''Otkrovenje'' (Revelation), 1922. * ''Afrika'', 1930. * ''Ljudi Govore'' (The people speak), 1931. * ''Dan šesti'' (The sixth day), 1961. References External linksTranslated works by Rastko Petrović 1898 births 1949 deaths Photographers from Belg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Painters From Serbia
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 Aralica (1883–1980) * Đorđe Andrejević Kun (1904–1964) * Mika Antić (1932–1986) * Dragoslav Pavle Aksentijević (born 1942) * Marina Abramović (born 1946) * Nataša Atanasković (born 1972) * Emanuil Antonovich (1785–1829) B * Nikola Božidarević (1460–1517) * Dimitrije Bačević (1735–1770) * Georgije Bakalović (1786–1843) * Anastas Bocarić (1864–1944) * Špiro Bocarić (1876–1941) * Jovan Bijelić (c.1884–1964) * Ilija Bašičević (1895–1972) * Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904–1993) * Dimitrije Bratoglic (1765–1831) * Janko Brašić (1906–1994) * Miloš Bajić (1915–1995) * Radivoj Berbakov (1925–2003) * Kossa Bokchan (1925–2009) * Ivana Bašić (born 1986) C * Gala Čaki (born 1987) * Teod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milorad Petrović Seljančica
Milorad M. "Seljančica" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад М. Петровић Сељанчица; 26 July 1875 – 17 April 1921) was a Serbian poet, playwright and soldier. Many of his poems were turned into songs. Biography After finishing teacher's college in Aleksinac, Milorad Petrović became a high school teacher. He married his high school sweetheart, Ruža (Rose) Knežević, who was also a teacher and they had children. They both taught in village schools in Krčmar, Stojnik, Ranilović, and Mladenovac. He established himself in Belgrade and, at the age of 32, after having authored several books of poetry, began writing for the stage. Between 1907 and 1912 he wrote more than 300 poems that were transcribed into lyrical songs for the theater and became the most conspicuous poet of the day. His copiousness and speed of composition—together with his bohemian habits—became proverbial: the writer Janko Veselinović recalled how proudly Milorad Petrović wore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Prevert
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over one hundred identified noble families related to the surname by the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Origins The origin of this surname ultimately originates from the Latin, Jacobus which belongs to an unknown progenitor. Jacobus comes from the Hebrew name, Yaakov, which translates as "one who follows" or "to follow after". Ancient history A French knight returning from the Crusades in the Holy Lands probably adopted the surname from "Saint Jacques" (or "James the Greater"). James the Greater was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles, and is believed to be the first martyred apostle. Being endowed with this surname was an honor at the time and it is likely that the Church allowed it because of acts during the Crusades. Indeed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, ''Pelléas et Mélisande (opera), Pelléas et Mélisande''. Debussy's orchestral works include ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'' (1894), ''Nocturnes (Debussy), Nocturnes'' (1897–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihajlo Petrov
Mihajlo S. Petrov (1902-1983) was a Serbian-Yugoslavian avant-garde painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and art critic. Biography After he completed his studies under the tutelage of Ljubomir Ivanović at the Arts and Crafts School and Milan Milovanović at the Royal Art School (''Kraljevska umetnička škola'') in Belgrade. Influenced by Yvan Goll, Dragan Aleksić and Ljubomir Micić, Petrov became involved with ''Zenit'' magazine which Micić first launched in 1921 in Zagreb and then in 1924 in Belgrade. The ideas communicated through the ''Zenit'' art review became known as Zenitism, a first notable art movement from the Balkans in Europe. He then went on to pursue further study in Vienna (1922), Krakow (1923) and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1924-1925). Petrov was one of ''Zenits most active associates in his first phase (1921), as well as its most ardent collaborator. He was also a collaborator with other ''avant-garde'' journals such as ''Dada Tank'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasa Pomorišac
Vasa Pomorišac (15 December 1893 — 9 September 1961) was a Serbian artist and professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He worked as a painter, stained glass window maker, etcher, printmaker and he was also an art critic. He is considered an expressionist painter in the same category as his contemporaries Mihajlo Petrov, Ivan Radović, Petar Dobrović, and Jovan Bijelić. Biography Pomorišac was born in the Serbian town of Modoš (now Jaša Tomić) in what was then part of the Austrian Empire. He first studied painting with Stevan Aleksić until 1913, when he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was briefly a student of Gabriel von Hackl, Franz von Stuck and Angelo Jank. At Munich, he met fellow student Živorad Nastasijević (1893-1966), who became a close friend. His studies were interrupted by a period of national service between 1914 and 1918, when he served in the Austrian Army at the Russian front and after surrendering to the Russians, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
