Serbian Sculptors - Olga Jevri, Olja Ivanjicki, Ana Be Li, or E Jovanovi, Risto Stijovi, Olga Jan I, Matija Vukovi, Jovan Soldatovi (Paperback)

Chapters: Olga Jevri, Olja Ivanjicki, Ana Be li, or e Jovanovi, Risto Stijovi, Olga Jan i, Matija Vukovi, Jovan Soldatovi, Simeon Roksandi, Dragi a Stanisavljevi, Drinka Radovanovi, Ferenc Kalmar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Olga Jevric (born 1922) (not to be confused with Olga Jancic) is a famous Serbian sculptor, one of the many renowned female sculptors emerging from Serbia. Olga Jevri was born in Belgrade in 1922. In 1941 she graduated from high school, but was rejected on the entrance exam of the studies at the Sculpting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. The following year, she successfully enrolls both the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Music in Belgrade (both now faculties). In 1948 Jevri graduated at the sculpting department of AFA, in the class of prof. Sreten Stojanovi. She got an M.A. degree in 1949 (special course) in the class of the same professor (Sreten Stojanovic). She also studied art history in Belgrade. She was accepted as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and SLUJ in 1950. Her first exhibition was in 1948, and since then she had numerous exhibitions in country and abroad. She received many awards. Olga Jevri was the first new donator to Belgrade Heritage House; she signed a Gift Contract on 10 February 2006 and bequeathed 44 of her sculptures made in iron-oxide, iron, cement, terracotta and filmed plaster. The core of the bequest, except some of the early portraits and a few works from the late phase of creation, is made of sculptures from the first individual exhibition of Olga Jevri presented at ULUS Gallery at Terazije in Belgrade back in 1957.This exhibition, which was very controversial at that time in our art scene, characterized Olga Jevri as a sculptor, who had s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3342870