Dejan Medaković

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Dejan Medaković
Дејан Медаковић
Art historian, writer
AwardsHerder Prize (1990)

Dejan Medaković (

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1971–1973), and was a member of the Matica srpska
as well as other scholarly associations.

Life

Dejan Medaković was born on 7 July 1922 in

Mihailo Obrenović
. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Austrian military nobility.

Medaković finished his lower gymnasium education on the island of

Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, in the Art History Department.[1]

He became a member of the faculty at the

Leibniz Society in Berlin, member of the Matica srpska Council in Novi Sad, and the president of the Vuk Karadžić Foundation Assembly.[1][2]

He held various positions at SANU: he was the Secretary of the Department for Historical Sciences (1981–85), the Secretary General of the Academy (1985–94), and in 1999 Medaković was elected President of SANU, a post which he held until 2003. At Matica srpska he was in charge of the Department of Art History. He edited the Fine Arts Digest of Matica srpska journal (Serbian: Zbornik za likovne umetnosti Matice srpske).[2] His research interests included a wide scope of topics in art history and art criticism, from Serbian medieval art to modern painting, but his main fields of expertise were Serbian Baroque painting and general cultural circumstances of the 18th century, as well as Serbian art of the 19th century.[2]

Please, we were set up that we wanted to tear down the country. On the contrary, Memorandum was a document which tried to stop the breakup. …When the Memorandum controversy appeared, we were applauded in the West. Afterwards it was interpreted as an anti-communist document, as a breach for some new democratic state. The country's official politics attacked us. ...In Hague the Memorandum is pulled out again. Of course, they now need another variant. That's the vortex of daily politics.[3]

— Dejan Medaković on the SANU Memorandum

Medaković was also a writer and a poet. He published many studies, essays, monographs, reviews and articles on various topics ranging from new developments in arts to current social and political issues. His studies have been collected and published in several books: Serbian Painters of the 18th Century (1968), The Paths of Serbian Baroque, Testimonials (1984), Explorers of Serbian Antiquity (1985), and Baroque and Serbs (1988). He was also a major contributor to the six-volume History of the Serb People (1981–1993), and other important publications such as Serbian Art of the 18th Century (1980), and Serbian Art of the 19th Century (1981).

In addition, he authored several important art monographs and studies dealing with cultural heritage of the

Savina
. Other important works by Medaković include The Chronicles of Serbs in Trieste (1987), Serbs in Vienna, Serbs in Zagreb, Images of Belgrade in Old Etchings, Selected Serbian themes, and Letters. Medaković also penned five books of poetry, and an autobiographical prose cycle titled Ephemeris.

Medaković was the recipient of many distinguished awards and honours: the Herder Prize; the Anton Gindely Prize; the City of Belgrade October Award; the Prosveta Annual Award; the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz); the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts; the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, the Medal of Vuk Karadžić of the First Order, and many others.

He died from cancer on 1 July 2008, at the Oncological Institute of Belgrade Hospital.

Honors and awards

Medaković on a 2022 stamp of Serbia
  • Prosveta Reward for literature, philosophy and history
  • 7 July Reward of Serbia
  • 1990 – Herder Prize, Republic of Austria
  • Gindeli Rewards, Republic of Austria
  • The Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts
  • October Reward of Belgrade
  • Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
  • Order of bischop of Zagreb Ist degree, Republic of Croatia
  • Special Vuk's Rewards
  • Annual Reward of Prosveta
  • Order of Saint Sava
    , I degree
  • Great Cross for Services to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Medal of Vuk Karadžić, I degree
  • Crown of Despot Stefan Lazarević
  • Golden ring of Despot Stefan Lazarević
  • Bestseller reward, National library of Serbia

Works

Research works

  • Beograd u starim gravirama (in Serbian). 1950.
  • Grafika srpskih štampanih knjiga XV—XVII veka (in Serbian). 1958.
  • Stari srpski drvorez (in Serbian). 1964.
  • Srpski slikari XVIII—XX veka (in Serbian). 1968.
  • Putevi srpskog baroka (in Serbian). 1971.
  • Tragom srpskog baroka (in Serbian). 1976.
  • Oči u oči (in Serbian). 1978.
  • Manastir Savina (in Serbian). 1998.
  • Hilandar (in Serbian). 1978.
  • Srpska umetnost u XVIII veku (in Serbian). 1980.
  • Srpska umetnost u XIX veku (in Serbian). 1998.
  • Sentandreja (in Serbian). 1982.
  • Istraživaci srpskih starina (in Serbian). 1984.
  • Letopis Srba u Trstu (in Serbian). 1987.
  • Barok kod Srba (in Serbian). 1988.
  • Sumrak Lovčena (in Serbian). 1989.
  • Zapadnoevropski barok i vizantijski svet (in Serbian). 1989.
  • Kosovski boj u likovnim umetnostima (in Serbian). 1989.
  • Serbischer Barock: Sakrale Kunst im Donauraum (Serbian Baroque) (in German). Vienna: Bohlau. 1991.
    ISBN 978-3-205-05401-6
    .
  • ISBN 1-870732-31-6
    .
  • Pavle Ivić, ed. (1995) [1981]. "Serbian Art in the Nineteenth Century". The History of Serbian Culture. Translated by Randall A. Major (English translation ed.). Edgware, Middlesex: Porthill Publishers.
    ISBN 1-870732-31-6
    .
  • Serbs in Vienna (in Serbian). 1998.
  • Dunav, reka jedinstva Evrope (in Serbian). Prometej. 1998.
  • Izabrane srpske teme I-V (in Serbian). 1998.
  • Sveta gora fruškogorska (in Serbian). 1998.
  • Otkrivanje Hilandara (in Serbian). 2001.
  • Joseph II und die Serben (in Serbian) (German translation ed.). Prometej. 2001.
  • Serben in Wien (Serbs in Vienna) (German translation ed.). Prometej. 2001.
    ISBN 86-7639-546-2
    .
  • Die Donau (in Serbian) (German translation ed.). Prometej. 2001.
  • Serbs in Zagreb (in Serbian). Prometej. 2004.

Books of poetry

  • Motivi (in Serbian). 1946.
  • Kamenovi (in Serbian). 1966.
  • Umir (in Serbian). 1987.
  • Niska (in Serbian). 1989.
  • Znak na kamenu (in Serbian). 1994.
  • Zaveštanje (in Serbian). 1995.
  • Sve čudnije je čudno (in Serbian). Prometej. 2000.

Books of short stories

  • Povratak u Rakitije (in Serbian).
  • Ptice (in Serbian).
  • Orlov let (in Serbian).
  • Parastost u Sremskim Karlovcima (in Serbian).
  • Lumen Karlovačke gimnazije (in Serbian).

Other works

Memoirs, autobiographical prose, letters, speeches:

  • Svedočenja (in Serbian). 1984.
  • Ephemeris: chronique d'une famille (Ephemeris I) (in French). Lausanne: Age d'homme. 1995.
  • Traženje dobra (in Serbian). 1995.
  • Pisma (in Serbian). 1996.
  • Ephemeris I-V (in Serbian). Belgrade: Beogradski izdavacko-graficki zavod. 1998.
  • Suočavanje sa ljudima i vremenom (in Serbian). 2000.
  • Pisma i govori (in Serbian). Prometej. 2004.
  • Dani, sećanja I-VIII (in Serbian). 1996–2006.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Dejan Medaković". www.odlikovanja.sanu.ac.rs. Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  2. ^ a b c d "Vremeplov: Rođen Dejan Medaković". www.rtv.rs. Radio and Television of Vojvodina. 7 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Jadna nam je država - Intervju sa Dejanom Medakovićem". Nedeljnik Vreme. Retrieved 23 July 2019.

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