Sombor in Serbia: Gallery Milan Konjović
Director Peter Mraković talks about the famous Serbien painter Milan Konjović.
Milan Konjović 28 January 1898 – 20 October 1993
Milan Konjović (28 January 1898 – 20 October 1993) (Милан Коњовић) was a prominent Serbian painter whose works can be divided into six periods of artistic style. He studied in many countries abroad and lived in Paris from 1924 to 1932. His long life's work earned him many recognitions as well as a place in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU).
Milan Konjovic finished elementary and secondary school in Sombor between 1904 and 1916. In 1914 he had his first exhibition featuring some fifty works painted in nature. In 1919 he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in the class of Vlah Bukovac. Having left the Academy after the second semester, he continued his education on his own, in Prague where an avant-garde Czech painter Ian Zrzavi introduced him to the art of Leonardo da Vinci. He later brought his studies to Vienna and travelled to German museums in Munich, Berlin, and Dresden.
He arrived in Paris in May 1924 and stayed there until 1932. Afterwards he returned to his native Sombor.
His most significant and successful one-man exhibitions includes 1931's Galerie Bing et Cie, 1932 Galerie van Leer, and 1937 Galerie Mouradian-Vallotton. He participated in several Paris Salon exhibitions, marked the beginning of his artistic blue phase, which lasted from 1929 to 1933. In the later years, he devoted himself to painting his hometown Sombor, its landscape, people and milieu. In summertime he painted in the cities of Dalmatia, including Mlini, Cavtat, and Dubrovnik.
Konjovic's red phase lasted from 1934 till 1940. In 1941 Konjovic was in Osnabric as a prisoner of war. After his release, Konjovic began painting pastels most notably in the years 1943, 1944, and 1949. He then began producing oil works painted in so-called 'subdued colors' from 1945 to 1952, marking the gray phase of his work. 1953 is considered to be the turning point in Konjovic's painting style. He works began to be defined by more pure intensive colors and glow, leading to the period dubbed the coloristic phase. New artistic orientation culminated and was to characterize the works of the associative phase (1960–1984). At that time Milan Konjovic engaged himself in the work of the artists' colonies of Vojvodina. In 1985 began the Byzantine phase with works treating various themes from Byzantine history.
By the end of 1990 Konjovic had produced about thirty new works, completing the impressive opus of about 6000 oil paintings, pastels, water colors, temperas, drawings, tapestries, stage sets, costume sketches, stained glass windows, mosaics, and graphics. In his life, Konjovic had 297 one-man and 700 group exhibitions in the country and abroad, in such notable locations as Prague, New York, London, Amsterdam, São Paulo, Rome, Modena, Athens, Paris, and Moscow.
His legacy is best represented in his hometown of Sombor where the Milan Konjovic Gallery, opened on 10 September 1966, holds about 1060 selected works. In 1979 he was elected a member of Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1986 he became a corresponding member of Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 1992 a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In June 2008, an exhibition of the works by Milan Konjovic was opened in the Milan Konjovic Gallery in Sombor to commemorate 110 years from the birth of the artist. Entitled Milan Konjovic: In Defence of the Autonomy of Paintings (Milan Konjović: Odbrana autonomije slike), the exhibition documented Konjovic's output in the period of socialist realism, from 1946 until 1951, when Marxist art critics vilified and criticised the artist for (among other things) painting for himself, instead of for the community.
In November–December 2011, several works by Milan Konjovic were included in the exhibition of paintings from the Memorial Collection of Pavle Beljanski in the Central Military Club in Belgrade.[5]
Dr Drasko Redjep notes that Konjovic became aware of his own artistic worth very early and always maintained high prices of his paintings, but he also donated them with joyful generosity.
Music: Aleksandar Obradovic - Koncert za klarinet (Clarinet Concerto)
Milan Konjovic - Povratak u Pariz
Izložba slika Milana Konjovića pod nazivom Povratak u Pariz u Kulturnom centru Srbije u Parizu (28.05.-30.06.2012.)
Kamera i režija: Đorđe Arambašić
Pariz, maj 2012.
Izložbu, koju čine 25 slika iz fundusa Galerije „Milan Konjović u Somboru, su omogućili Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu AP Vojvodine, Ministarstvo kulture i informisanja Republike Srbije, Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova Republike Srbije i Grad Sombor.
The exhibition of Milan Konjović's paintings entitled The Return to Paris in Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris (28 May -- 30 June 2012.)
Camera and Direction: Đorđe Arambašić
Paris, May 2012
This exhibition, consisting of 25 paintings from the holdings of the Milan Konjović Gallery in Sombor, was made possible by the Provincial Secretariat for Culture of Vojvodina, the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the Town of Sombor.
Milan Konjovic
Milan Konjović rođen je 28.01.1898. u Somboru, gde je završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju.
Prvi put izlaže 1914. u somborskoj gimnaziji.
Slikarstvo studira od 1919. u Pragu,
na Akademiji likovnih umetnosti u klasi Vlaha Bukovca. Nakon dva semestra studije nastavlja samostalno
u Pragu (avangardni češki slikar Jan Zrzavi ga upućuje
na Leonarda), Beču i po nemačkim muzejima.
U maju 1924. stiže u Pariz i ostaje do 1932. godine,
do svog konačnog povratka u Sombor.
U Parizu postiže zapažene uspehe
samostalnim izložbama, kao i sudelovanjem
na izložbama pariških salona.
U Parizu nastaje Konjovićeva »plava faza«
(1923-1933). Po povrtaku u domovinu
posvetio se slikanju domovine, njenog pejzaža, ljudi i ambijenta sa strašću vizionara koji svemu što radi
daje pečat autentične stvaralačke ličnosti.
Leti slika u Dalmaciji (Mlini, Cavtat, Dubrovnik).
Za vreme rata 1941. je u zarobljeništvu
u Osnabriku. Posle povratka 1943,1944.
i 1949. godine nastaju Konjovićevi pasteli.
Ulja stišanog kolorita, nastala od 1945-1952
sačinjavaju umetnikovu »sivu fazu«. Godina 1953.
znači preokret u Konjovićevom slikarstvu:
odnos prema predmetu je nov, slobodniji;
na platnima »kolorističke faze« plamsa
čista intenzivna boja. Nova slikarska orijentacija
kulminira i traje na radovima »asocijativne faze«
(1960-1984).
1985. počinje sa prvim varijacijama na temu
vizanijske umetnosti, i do kraja 1990.
nastaje tridesetak dela nove »vizantijske faze«,
sa kojom se završava Konjovićev prebogati opus
od oko 6000 radova, većinom ulja, ostalo su crteži, akvareli, pasteli, grafike, tempera, tapiserije,
pozorišnih scenografija, skica za kostim, vitraža,
mozaika i drugo. Ovo jedinstveno, raznovrsno delo afirmisalo je ime svoga majstora
sa 300 samostalnih izložbi i oko 700 grupnih
u zemlji i inostranstvu.
Njegovi radovi se nalaze u brojnim galerijama
i muzejima u zemlji, kao i u značajnim kolekcijama
u inostranstvu.
U Somboru 1966. godine otvorena je
Galerija »Milan Konjović«, u kojoj se
hronološkim postavkama i tematskim izložbama
prezentuju dela koja je umetnik darovao svom gradu.
Fond Galerije sačinjavaju 1060 radova.
Za redovnog člana Vojvođanske akademije nauka
i umetnosti izabran je 1979, za dopisnog člana Jugoslovenske akademije znanosti i umetnosti 1986,
a za redovnog člana
Srpske akademije i umetnosti 1992.
Dobitnikje mnogobrojnih značajnih nagrada
i priznanja u zemlji i inostranstvu.
Umro je u Somboru, 20. oktobra 1993.godine
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Izložba slika Milana Konjovića u MSU RS Banja Luka jun-jul 2013
Izložba slika Milana Konjovića u prostoru Muzeja savremene umjetnosti Republike Srpske u Banja Luci (Republika Srpska - Bosna i Hercegovina) jun - jul 2013.
Izložbu čini retrospektivna postavka slika iz Galerije „Milan Konjović, a čine je 72 slike i jedna tapiserija. Autor izložbe je Sava Stepanov, likovni kritičar iz Novog Sada. Izložbu su pomogli: Pokrajinski sekretarijat za kulturu i javno informisanje Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine, Novi Sad i Ministarstvo kulture i javnog informisanja Republike Srbije, Beograd. Partner Galerije u realizaciji izložbe je Kulturni centar Sombor.
The exhibition of Milan Konjović's paintings in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republika Srpska in Banja Luka (The Republika Srpska - Bosnia and Herzegovina) june - july 2013.
This is a retrospective exhibition of paintings from the Milan Konjović Gallery. The exhibition consists of 72 paintings and one tapestry. The author of the exhibition is Sava Stepanov, an art critic from Novi Sad. The exhibition is supported by the Provincial Secretariat for Culture and Information in Novi Sad and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade. The Gallery's partner for the realization of the exhibition is the Cultural Centre Sombor.
50 godina postojanja Galerije “Milan Konjović” u Somboru
U okviru programa obeležavanja jubileja 50 godina Galerije “Milan Konjović” u Somboru organizovana je izložba I okrugli sto pod nazivom “Kontinuitet modernosti u slikarstvu Milana Konjovića”.
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SO: Pola veka Galerije Milan Konjović
Povodom obeležavanja pola veka postojanja galerije Milan Konjović u Somboru je sinoć je otvorena izložba Kontinuitet modernosti u slikarstvu Milana Konjovića koju je priredio Sava Stepanov.
Radio-televizija Vojvodine
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Sombor - Galerija Konjović
U Galeriji „Milan Konjović“ u Somboru otvorena je izložba slika pod nazivom „Slikarstvo Milana Konjovića od 1944. do 1952. godine“.
Podrška Erste banke Galeriji Milan Konjović Sombor
Goran Lukić, direktor Filijale Sombor, Milena Rackov Kovačić, v.d. direktora Galerije „Milan Konjović“ - TV Srece Sombor
Milan Konjovic najava izlozbe MSURS
Milan Konjović 1 slikar 15 fotografa 30 umetničkih dela 002 05 10 2015 RT Vojvodina 1 Razglednice
Milan Konjović
1 slikar 15 fotografa 30 umetničkih dela
Milan Konjović
Divan sa Konjovićem. Miroslav Josić Višnjić 28. januar 1991.
50 godina Galerije Milan Konjović u Somboru
50 godina Galerije Milan Konjović u Somboru
Sava Stepanov lik.istoričar i kritičar
Dimitrije Tadić savetnik ministra kulture i informasanja RS
TV Sreće Sombor
Pola veka Galerije Milan Konjović u Somboru
Danas galerija „Milan Konjović“ slavi svoj veliki jubilej – pola veka postojanja galerije. Sve ćemo saznati od koleginice Zlate Vasiljević.
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Milan Konjović - 1 slikar, 15 fotografa, 30 umetničkih dela - 001 28 09 2015 Novosadska TV
Milan Konjović - 1 slikar, 15 fotografa, 30 umetničkih dela - 003 28 09 2015 RTV 1
Milan Konjović - 1 slikar, 15 fotografa, 30 umetničkih dela
FILM KONJOVIC 75 (by Dragan Stojkov)
Nastanak slike Milana Konjovica
Autor filma Dragan Stojkov, 1975. okolina Sombora