Olga Vasilievna Ivanitskaya or Olya Ivanitsky ( Serb. Оља (Olga) V. Ivagicki / Olja (Olga) V. Ivanjicki ; May 10, 1931 , Belgrade - June 24, 2009 , ibid.) - Serbian artist of Russian origin, sculptor, architect, costume designer , writer and poetess. Especially known for her paintings in the style of avant-garde art, she held at least 99 personal exhibitions, both at home and abroad.
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Biography
Born May 10, 1931 in the city of Pancevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in the family of Russian refugees Vasily Vasilyevich Ivanitsky and Veronika Mikhailovna Piotrovskaya, who were forced to leave Russia because of the outbreak of the October Revolution [4] . She spent her childhood in Kragujevac , later moved to Belgrade , graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts , where she studied under the guidance of the famous sculptor Sreten Stoyanovich .
Despite the basic education of the sculptor, she showed herself more in painting, already in the 1950s she painted several of her first paintings. She gained fame in 1959 by joining the newly formed association Medial, a group of artists, writers and architects who made a significant contribution to the art of Yugoslavia of that period (she was the only woman artist in the group). After graduating from graduate school in 1962, she was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship and went to continue her studies in the United States, here she met, including new - fangled pop art . Upon returning to Serbia, applied the knowledge gained in America regarding Serbian traditional art.
During her long creative life Ivanitskaya held more than one hundred solo exhibitions, many of her works went to museums and private collections. She left some mark in architecture, the author of the projects of memorial complexes, monuments, bridges and even cars. She was fond of creating traditional Serbian costumes, often collaborated with Belgrade theaters, sewed folk costumes for historical theater productions. She has published several books with verses of her own composition, as well as a collection of correspondence with prominent representatives of Yugoslav art. In later years, she was engaged in administrative activities, supported young painters, was part of the Belgrade Association of Artists, and in 2007 established a foundation of her own name. According to a public opinion poll, recognized as the best artist of Yugoslavia of the 20th century, she was included in the list of 200 world intellectuals according to the Biographical Center of the University of Cambridge [5] [6] .
She died on June 24, 2009 in Belgrade after undergoing heart surgery [7] . She was buried in the Alley of Honorable Citizens of the Belgrade New Cemetery [8] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/274632,serbias-best-known-painter-olja-ivanjicki-dies.html
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ Koј e ko u Srbiјi 1991, Beograd 1991. country 163-164, text “Iwaњicki V. Olga - Oљa”
- ↑ Svetlana Kuzmicheva. Beloved angels . senica.ru (December 2, 2009). Date of treatment March 29, 2016.
- ↑ Tatyana Chesnokova. Olya Ivanitsky: Balkan tragedy and Russian scope . Rosbalt (July 30, 2013). Date of treatment March 29, 2016.
- ↑ RTS :: Preminula Olja Ivanjicki , commenced on 17.17.2013.
- ↑ Sahranjena Olja Ivanjicki: Kultura: POLITIKA , commenced on 17.17.2013.