Aleksandar Bugarski
Aleksandar Bugarski (1835–1891) was a Serbian architect who combined the new with the old styles giving the city a distinct feature of its own.[1][2]
Biography
Aleksandar Bugarski was born in 1835 into an engineering family, in Eperjes (then Austrian Empire, today Prešov in Slovakia). His father Jovan moved to Serbia soon after his birth and in 1842 took Serbian citizenship, but after the change of dynasty, he moved from Belgrade to Novi Sad, where Aleksandar finished elementary school and high school. Then, he enrolled at the Budapest Technical College where he studied architecture.[3]
From 1859 he opened his own architectural firm, and in the period from 1869 until 1890, he was employed by the Serbian Ministry of Construction and Public Works in Belgrade as a state architect. He worked in the countries of Austria-Hungary and in Serbia. He designed and erected the largest number of buildings in Belgrade: the initial design of the
He is a typical representative of historical styles from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism combined with traditional Serbian architecture and art of the medieval past.[8] Bugarski was the most important architect, if not, one of the most important of his time in Serbia.[1]
Old National Theatre Serbian Orthodox Church in Loznica
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Stari dvor in Belgrade
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House of Vuk's Foundation in Belgrade
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Smederevo, town hall
References
- ^ ISSN 1450-605X– via scindeks.ceon.rs.
- ^ "Beograd - Architecture and building".
- ISBN 9780429686450– via Google Books.
- ^ "Yugoslav Review". Jugoslovenska Revija. June 25, 1989 – via Google Books.
- ^ [email protected], SmederevoWelcome-. "The building of the Regional Prefecture". SmederevoWelcome.
- ^ Ђурић-Замоло, Дивна (June 25, 1968). "Belgrade on Old Photographs. Београд Са Старих Фотографија". Turistic̆ka s̆tampa – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9788024607863– via Google Books.
- ^ Pokrajac, Marija (June 25, 2015). "Heraldički dekor u službi vladarske ideologije na fasadama Starog dvora". Artum - Istorijsko-umetnički časopis. 2 (2): 52–61 – via www.ceeol.com.