Aleksa Čelebonović
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Aleksa Čelebonović (Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 December 1917 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 26 May 1987) was a Serbian painter, art critic, art historian and professor at the University of Belgrade.
Biography[edit]
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade in 1941, first studying painting privately with Jovan Bijelić and then in Florence at the Accademia di belle arti. He exhibited for the first time in 1934 in Belgrade. He was a member of the painting group "Ten" which he exhibited in 1940 in Zagreb and Belgrade. He spent the war in exile in Italy and Switzerland, and after liberation, he returned to Belgrade where he worked for the Yugoslav Red Cross, the Federation of Fine Artists of Yugoslavia (SULUJ), the Graphic Industry School, the Secretariat for Culture of SR Serbia, the Publishing House "Yugoslavia" editor and director. He exhibited independently in Belgrade (1957) and Novi Sad (1959). He was also engaged in pedagogical work: he was a professor by invitation at the Faculty of Applied Arts (1976-1985) and the Faculty of Philosophy - Art History Group (1985-1987) in Belgrade. He was a member and secretary of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS). He was the founder, secretary (1954-1953) and president (1963-1965) of the Yugoslav section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He was the founder and first director of the Yugoslav Triennial of Fine Arts (1961), as well as the commissioner of the Yugoslav selections at the Venice Biennales (1958, 1964, 1966) and Sao Paulo (1957, 1961, 1969). He organized exhibitions of Serbian and Yugoslav art in the country and abroad.
He started publishing reviews, forewords to exhibition catalogues, studies and books in 1939. He is a contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines: Borba, Književne novine, Politika, NIN, Delo, Književnost, Umetnost and others. He also published important texts on Serbian and Yugoslav art in foreign magazines. He also wrote several books on fine arts, some of which was published abroad.
He is the younger brother of the famous Serbian painter Marko Čelebonović (1902–1986).
Painting group "Ten"[edit]
The painting group "Desetoro" exhibited together in 1940 in Belgrade and Zagreb. The group consisted of Danica Antić, Borivoj Grujić, Nikola Graovac, Dušan Vlajić, Milivoj Nikolajević, Jurica Ribar, Ljubica Sokić, Stojan Trumić, Aleksa Čelebonović and Bogdan Šuput.[1]Although heterogeneous in its composition, the group consisted of two women and eight men, there were academic painters, intellectuals with a university education, but also painters by vocation, they belonged to various social strata from the working class to the bourgeoisie. What this group had in common was that they were all painters and students of Jovan Bijelić. Some of these artists perished in World War II, and those who survived were significant artists in the postwar period.
Books (selection)[edit]
- 1953. Jurica Ribar 1918-1943, (co-author), ULUS, Belgrade
- 1960. For access to art, Rad, Belgrade
- 1959. Dušan Vlajić, ed. Painters and sculptors, Prosveta, Belgrade (second edition 1965)
- 1965. Contemporary painting in Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Belgrade (published simultaneously in English and French 1966)
- 1970. Vojislav Jakić, (co-author), Bagdala, Kruševac (published simultaneously in English and French)
- 1974. Ancient Greece: Aesthetic Approach to Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Yugoslavia, Belgrade, and the State Publishing House of Slovenia, Ljubljana
- 1974. The Beautified World: Painting of Bourgeois Realism from 1860 to 1914, Yugoslavia, Belgrade, (published as special editions in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Amsterdam, and in Bucharest 1982)
- 1987. Behind the shape, Nolit, Belgrade
References[edit]
- Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
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