Уметничка збирка САНУ : ликовни уметници академици

Abstract

On the occasion of the jubilee marking one hundred and seventy-five years of its existence, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is presenting a part of its rich collection of artworks with the exhibition The SASA Fine Art Collection – Artists-Academicians. Since the foundation of the Society of Serbian Letters in 1841 and later through the Serbian Learned Society, the Serbian Royal Academy, to present-day Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, works of art have been assembled in various ways: via acquisitions, donations of benefactors or artists themselves. The SASA Fine Art Collection was defined in the late 1960s. The collection holds works of fine art in various techniques. There are works in oil, tempera and pastel, drawings, graphics, as well as stone, bronze and wood sculptures. The Fine Art Collection consists of works from a wide range of periods: from the print of the Hopovo monastery from the mid-eighteenth century to the works by the currently active members of the Fine and Musical Arts Department. The general public first saw the works from the Fine Art Collection in 1982 in a reconstructed and renovated gallery premises of the SASA. Since then, the Fine Art Collection has been regularly put on display, and in 2011, the exhibits were accompanied with the publication of the first catalogue of the Academy’s collection. Comprising some 50 selected works of art, the exhibition The SASA Fine Art Collection – Artists-Academicians is primarily intended for museums and galleries across Serbia, so that visitors may get acquainted not only with a part of the Fine Art Collection, but the very criteria upon which the collection has been formed for almost two centuries. With this exhibition and catalogue reproducing selected works by artists and sculptors-members of the SASA from its foundation till this day, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts wishes to acknowledge and express gratitude to many donors who contributed to the formation of its rich Art Fund, to remind the general public of the donors-art lovers and endowers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the very artists-academicians who founded the SASA Fine Art Collection by means of gifts and donations. Dušan Otašević