Marko Čelebonović

Marko Čelebonović , in Serb Cyrillic Sr МаркоЧелебоновић (born with Belgrade the November 22nd 1902 - died in 1986), is one of the Serb painters most important of the 20th century.

Biography

Marko Čelebonović was born with Belgrade but the First World War forced its family with intaller with Salonique then, in Suisse, with Zurich and Lausanne; it is there that the future painter completed his secondary studies. He studied then the political economy with Oxford (1918-1919), then made studies of right to Paris (1920-1922). In 1922, it studied with the Grande Thatched cottage in the workshop of Antoine Bourdelle, with the intention to devote itself to the Sculpture. However, as of the summer 1923, it made the choice of painting and created its own workshop.

It exposed for the first time to Paris to the Salon of Tileries in May 1925 and organized its first individual exposure the following year to the Gallery Countryside first. In June 1925, it acquired of a property with Saint-Tropez, where it worked. He was the friend many painters like Abel Villard, Paul Signac, Albert Marquet, André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Tereškovic. By many aspects, it was attached to French painting, in spite of an obvious Balkan and Eastern influence. However, although he lived in France, it remained in liaison with Yugoslav painters like Sreten Stojanović, Marin Tartaglia and Petar Lubarda. In Saint-Tropez, it accepted many friends artists among whom Milo Milunović, Stojan Aralica, Milivoje Uzelac, Jurica Ribar and Alex Čelebonović.

In 1937, Čelebonović exposed for the first time individually in Belgrade and, in 1938, it united with the Groupe of the twelve (Dvanaestorica). During these years, he visited the Royaume of Yugoslavia, painted in Belgrade and on the coast Montenegrin; he also visited the Serb orthodoxe Monastères of his country. He will write later: My life and my work were determined by my attitude with respect to Yugoslavia. I bound the destiny of my art to that of Yugoslav painting. How one grows and how one reaches maturity is another business. The influence of French painting on my art and that of the others is rather natural. After all, which forever be free of any influence?

During the Second world war, Marko Čelebonović entered the French Résistance.

After the war, Marko Čelebonović returned in Yugoslavia and, of 1948 with 1960, he was professor with the Académie of the Art schools of Belgrade. For this period, it organized many individual exposures, in Paris, in Belgrade but also with Zurich, Geneva, Sarajevo, Skopje and Niš and it took part in many collective exposures in France, in Italy, Belgium, with the Netherlands and the Brésil.

In 1959 - 1960, having taken its retirement, it settled definitively in Saint-Tropez.

In 1963, it accepted the price " July 7th " for the whole of its work and, in 1968, it was elected regular member of the Serb Académie of sciences and arts.

Work

The work of Marko Čelebonović can be divided into several periods.

1923-1928 : the beginnings
1929-1932: the “brown phase”
1933-1939: the “green phase”

1940-1955 : transitional period

City in France (1948)

1956-1965 : the “phase blue-green”

as from 1966: the “white phase”

Nature dies with time
the Soup tureen (1975)

One can find fabrics of Čelebonović to the National museum of Belgrade, with the Musée of contemporary art of Belgrade but also in the collection of the Presidency of the République of Serbia.

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