Đorđe Krstić - Ђорђе Крстић

Đorđe Krstić

The Finding of the Head of Prince

( Car Lazar )

1945

Đorđe Krstić is in many ways the figurehead of the 19th century Serbian art and culture - among other things, because at the close of the epoch of romantic historicsm he was on the reoad to making a completely authentic contribution by harmonizing national tradition and modern figurative experssion.The Road to maturity was not short.In 1873 he found himself at the Art Academy in Munich, going on to continue more advanced studies in Rome in 1881, where he strenghtened his faith in the lasting values of bygone artistic epochs.

From:
Three Century of Serbian Painting, Miodrag Jovanovic

Stefan Tenecki - Стефан Тенецки

Stefan Tenecki

Epiphany and 3 Serbian Saints

1766

The long life and creative productivity of Stefan Tenecki, probaly born in the Second half of the 18th century, lasted throught the second half of the century.Owing to Tenecki's aristocratic pedigree from Lipova, his industriousness and the qualities of his paintings, he soon became a painter to the Arad Bishops Isaija Antonovic, Sinesija Zivanovic and Pahomije Knezevic.Moreover, he was senator in the municipal council of Arad, in which status he portrayed himself in what would become the first self-portrait in Serbian painting.The Family home in Arad and his loyalty to that town did not lessen his mobility, and he was willing to work on a great number of commissions from Fruska Gora and Banat to Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains.

From:
Three Century of Serbian Painting, Miodrag Jovanovic