{"id":2953,"date":"2023-06-07T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/umetnicka-zbirka\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:11","slug":"umetnicka-zbirka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/departments\/umetnicka-zbirka\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Art department of the Homeland museum of Knja\u017eevac takes care about visual and applied art collections (paintings, drawings, graphics, icons etc). It also carries out the organization and realization of exhibitions and other programs in the Museum, in collaboration with the Department for education and public relations. The Art Department and its collections are managed by the experts of the museum: senior curator and art historian Milena Milo\u0161evi\u0107 Mici\u0107 and the expert associate, academic painter Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107, M.A.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The youngest and the smallest collection of the Homeland museum of Knja\u017eevac, but not less significant is the collection of fine arts, formed in 2008. This collection contains almost 500 art pieces: paintings, graphics, drawings, icons, sculptures and reproductions. The collection has been divided into several units, not only artistic but also documentary: the collection of homeland painter\u2019s artworks, collection of Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107\u2019s artworks, collection of contemporary painters\u2019 artworks, collection of icons, etc. It was founded with the idea to present artists from Knja\u017eevac and its surrounding, and all the works of art made by those artists who used to live or stay in Knja\u017eevac for a period of time, pointing out the presence of diverse styles and various artistic scopes. Apart from its artistic value, the collection has a documentary value. It is an evidence of the social and cultural development of Knja\u017eevac. Its task is also to represent some of the most significant people and events from the period after the liberation from the Turks in 1833 until the middle of the XX century, without excluding of documentary and informative character of some of the works. However its character is not only a local one, but it also includes the purchase of Serbian contemporary artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art collection fund was formed in conformity with the concept of the Homeland Museum, but for a long period the works of art were collected randomly and without a plan. In the year 2008 the collection was systematized and organized for the museum with clearly specifying the methods of collecting, scientific processing and keeping the works of artists from Knja\u017eevac, and those who lived ad created in this town for a period of time, and how to further purchase and procure the works of contemporary painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important part of the art collection is a series of portraits of the most prominent citizens of Knja\u017eevac, as well as icons painted by Milisav Markovi\u0107 from Knja\u017eevac in the late XIX century. Exquisite parts of the Homeland museum\u2019s art collection represents the artworks of academic painters from Knja\u017eevac Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107, M.A., Milinko Kokovi\u0107, Miroslav Bata Blagojevi\u0107 – Cincar and Dragoljub Sandi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/section>\r\n \n\n\r\n

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Homeland artists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This, by the number, modest collection consists of several collections. Works of native artists make a separate collection. It represents the works of contemporary painters from Knja\u017eevac, such as: academic painter – graphic artist Dragoljub Sandi\u0107, the author of the Museum\u2019s logo as well as numerous posters and publications of the Museum; Milinko Kokovi\u0107 \u2013 academic painter that lives and works in Belgrade and who gave his early art works as legacy to the Museum; Miroslav Bata Blagojevi\u0107 Cincar; Rade Risti\u0107, whose pedagogical work and activities in the field of industrial design and marketing, has marked the period of 80\u2019s of the 20th century in Knja\u017eevac, Tomislav Paunkovi\u0107 internationally recognized artist who lives and works in Germany; Slavi\u0161a Mirkovi\u0107, an art teacher and exceptional painter, young artists Vojislav Markovi\u0107, academic graphist and Aleksa Markovi\u0107, academic sculptor, Marija Andrejevi\u0107, young and talented academic painter, \u017darko Aleksi\u0107 and Jelena Mici\u0107 who deal with contemporary media, art teachers Goran Milosavljevi\u0107 and Marina Novakovi\u0107, archpriest Sima \u017diki\u0107, watercolorist Nenad Corelj and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n

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Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A very special and important place in the Museum\u2019s art fund stands for the collection of Knja\u017eevac\u2019s academic painter Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107, M.A. a significant Serbian and internationally recognized contemporary artist. This collection is not numerous, but it is essential for the Homeland museum of Knja\u017eevac, since the majority of the works was created mainly for the purposes of new permanent exhibitions of the Museum. The rest of the collection represents mostly the artist\u2019s early artworks and they are a gift from the author himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea and intention was that the art of Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107 should give a visual identity to the Homeland museum of Knja\u017eevac, from exhibition spaces to publications and promotional material of the museum. Dominating position in the collection have a distinctive charcoal drawings made on canvas such as Prehistory, the Roman legionnaires – Timacum Minus, Chanting to the ring, Knja\u017eevac and others exposed in the permanent exhibition of the museum. Like a few early works \u2013 acts, dry pastel drawings o Babin Zub, pastel drawing on canvas from 1998 and a few unavoidable, authentic and unusual oil paintings like Lady from Knja\u017eevac and Carnival. The collection of the Homeland Museum in Knja\u017eevac was added by works owned by the author himself or Mom\u010dilo Todorovi\u0107, a collector from Belgrade. The collection of Dragoslav \u017divkovi\u0107 is exposed in a separate section in the museum gallery in Karadjordjeva 15, as a significant part of the permanent exhibition of the Homeland museum of Knja\u017eevac.<\/p>\n\n\n