CEREMONIAL SESSION ON THE OCCASION OF THE 125^th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ACADEMICIAN SRETEN STOJANOVIĆ

The ceremonial session on the occasion of commemorating the 125^th birth anniversary of Academician Sreten Stojanović will take place at the SASA Grand Hall, on Thursday, 23 November, at 11 a.m.

Historian Vera Grujić, Professor Jasmina Čubrilo and Milan Prosen, PhD, will talk about the work and life of one of the most prominent Serbian and Yugoslav sculptors of the 20^th century, a full professor, rector and a founder of the University of Arts.

An exhibition of his works is organized at the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the period from 16 to 27 November to mark the 125^th anniversary of this major artist’s birth.

Academician Sreten Stojanović (b. Prijedor, 2 February 1898 – d. Belgrade, 29 October 1960) proved himself to be an artist of a colossal sculptural opus, a drawer, watercolourist, art theoretician and pedagogue. He began his gymnasium education in Tuzla and finished it in Belgrade. During the course of the First World War, as a member of the ‘Young Bosnia Movement,’ he was sentenced to prison. In 1918, he went to Vienna to study sculpture with Franz Zelezny and Stanisław Roman Lewandowski. In the following year, he moved to Paris, to the famous artistic school of Antoine Bourdelle.

In 1922, he returned to Belgrade He had his works exhibited in Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome, Prague, Moscow and Venice.

He was a portraitist of extraordinary skill, whose magnificent official busts have a special place in the history of Yugoslav sculpture, and his reliefs and architectural plastics on buildings designed by Milan Zloković and Dragiša Brašovan, to this day testify to how mature artistic works can get a default place in public spaces. As a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts (nowadays The Faculty of Fine Arts) in Belgrade, he was elected in 1939. He was also a rector and a founding father of the University of Arts in Belgrade. He was elected a SAS corresponding member in 1950 and its full member in 1959.

His most recognizable works include monuments to Karađorđe, Njegoš, Filip Višnjić, Sloboda Monument at Iriški Venac, as well as sculptural portraits of Alberto Giacometti and Milutin Milanković.

A live stream of the event is available at https://www.sanu.ac.rs/direktan-prenos/.