Stevan Bodnarov (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Боднаров;

Gospođinci Gospođinci (; hu, Boldogasszonyfalva) is a village in the municipality of Žabalj, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 3,89 ...

, 12 August 1905 - Belgrade,

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, 20 May 1993) was a Serbian sculptor. and painter.

Biography

Stevan Bodnarov was born on 12 August 1905 in Gospođinci, a town which at the time was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and which today is located in Serbia, in the province of

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. From 1925, he attended the School of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he first studied sculpture with

Petar Palaviccini Petar Palaviccini or Palavicini ( hr, Petar Palavićini; 15 June 1887 — 22 October 1958) was a Croatian sculptor of Italian ancestry. Biography Palaviccini was born on 15 June 1887 in Korčula, Austria-Hungary. He studied stonemasonry in his n ...

then painting under the direction of

Mihailo Milovanović Mihailo Milovanović ( Gostinica, Serbia, 24 February 1879 – Užice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 November 1941) was a Serbian painter, sculptor and writer. He was one of the founders of the Association of Painters of Serbia (''Udruženja ...

. From 1930, he participated in the spring and autumn exhibitions in Belgrade; he exhibited individually in Belgrade in 1933 and in Novi Sad in 1938. In 1934 and 1935, Stevan Bodnarov lived in

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and, in 1938 and 1939, he took part in the art exhibitions in the French capital. Because of his participation in the National Liberation Movement (NOP), he was interned in the

Banjica concentration camp The Banjica concentration camp (german: KZ Banjica, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Бањички логор, Banjički logor) was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the military administration of the Third Rei ...

from 1942 to 1944 then, in the spring of 1944, he joined the People's Liberation Army and Partisans of Yugoslavia (NOVJ) and later other political organizations with his contemporaries Stevan Bodnarov died in Belgrade on 20 May 1993 and is buried in the Alley of Deserving Citizens of the

Belgrade New Cemetery The New Cemetery ( sr, Ново гробље, ''Novo groblje'') is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christia ...

Works

Among the pictorial works of Stevan Bodnarov, we can cite a Self-portrait painted in 1932 and kept in the

Matica srpska The Matica srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Матица српска, Matica srpska, la, Matrix Serbica, grc, Μάτιτσα Σρπσκα) is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national inst ...

museum, a portrait of a Gypsy Woman and a Landscape near Pudarci, the two dated 1936. As a renowned sculptor

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this ...

ist, Stevan Bodnarov produced many busts, such as those of Pjer Križanić,

Ljubica Sokić Ljubica "Cuca" Sokić (9 December 1914 – 8 January 2009) was a prominent Serbian and Yugoslav painter of the twentieth century. Biography She was born in Bitola, North Macedonia, where her mother Ruža was refugee during the World War I. Her ...

(Skopje Museum), Ismet Mujezinović (National Museum in Belgrade),

Dimitrije Tucović Dimitrije "Mita" Tucović ( sr-Cyrl, Димитрије Туцовић, ; 13 May 1881 – November 1914) was a Serbian theorist of the socialist movement, politician, writer and publisher. He was founder of the Serbian Social Democratic Par ...

(Slavija Square in Belgrade), as well as monuments like that of Janko Čmelik in Stara Pazova (1948), that of the victims of the Banjica camp in

Jajinci Jajinci ( sr-cyrl, Јајинци, ) is an urban neighborhood located in the municipality of Voždovac, in Belgrade, Serbia. It was the site of the worst carnage in Serbia during World War II when German occupational forces executed nearly 80,000 ...

(1951), that of the soldiers killed in action in Kula (1951) or even that of Bijelo Polje (1952). He is also the author of the busts of

Ivo Lola Ribar Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the ...

Ivan Milutinović Ivan Milutinović (nickname Milutin; sr-cyr, Иван Милутиновић; 27 September 1901 – 23 October 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II. Before the war In October ...

and

Đuro Đaković Đuro Đaković (30 November 1886 – 25 April 1929) was a Yugoslav metal worker, communist and revolutionary. Đaković was the organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, from April 1928 to April ...

which adorn the

Tomb of People's Heroes, Belgrade Tomb of People's Heroes ( sr, Гробница народних хероја, Grobnica narodnih heroja) in Belgrade is located underneath the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. It holds the remains of four recipients of the Order of the People's Hero ...

References

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