Gallery Milan Konjović

Milan Konjović (1898–1993) was a prominent Serbian painter. He lived in many European cities abroad, including in Paris from 1924 to 1932. He bequeathed around 500 pictures to his birth town and it’s how this art gallery was established. If you love art this is a must-see place in Sombor!

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Milan Konjović (1898–1993) was a prominent Serbian painter. He lived in many European cities abroad, including in Paris from 1924 to 1932. He bequeathed around 500 pictures to his birth town and it’s how this art gallery was established. If you love art this is a must-see place in Sombor!

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Welcome to The Gallery

The gallery was officially opened on September 10, 1966, displaying a collection of 500 selected works by Milan Konjović The Milan Konjović Gallery is housed in a one-storey Baroque building, built on the same site where the city’s first pharmacy used to be. The building was built in 1838 Today,...

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The Biography of Milan Konjović

Milan Konjović, a prominent painter of the 20th century, was born in 1898 Milan Konjović showed his extraordinary artistic talent from a very young age As a 16-year-old student, he presented his work of around 50 landscapes for the first time at the Sombor Grammar School exhibition in 1914 He...

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The Early phase

The early phase of Konjović’s work covers the period from 1913 to 1928 Aside from cubism, he was also drawn towards the stylistic expressions of Cezanneism and neoclassicism, which remained part of his work until 1927. From 1927 to 1929, he completely liberated himself from the influence of the neoclassicist...

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The Blue phase

During his Blue phase, which lasted from 1929 to 1933, he created over 200 high-quality works of art, which marked the beginning of his artistic maturity In 1931 he organised his first solo exhibition at the Bing Gallery in Paris. A year later he organised another solo exhibition at the...

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The Red phase

The period between 1934 and 1940 represents his red phase. This phase showcases the artist’s full maturity, during which he created more than 500 works Warm colours complemented by blue and green tones dominated his paintings during this period, and the wide, dark contour strongly emphasised the character of the...

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The Gray phase

The grey phase of Konjović’s career spanned from 1941 to 1952, encapsulating most of World War II and the post-war period. The difficult years of World War II and the artist’s captivity in Osnabrück in Germany, as well as the post-war crisis, would halt Konjović’s exceptional development for a brief...

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The Colouristic phase

Konjović’s colouristic phase began in 1952 and lasted for seven years In the 1950s, Konjović finally returned to his passionate and dynamic painting stlye In 1953, Konjović painted Natura Morte 53 and called it the boundary stone that separated his work from that year and the following years

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The Assoiciative phase

The associative phase represents the artist’s most creative period, which began in 1960 and lasted until 1985. This new stage in Konjović’s work was defined by partial abandonment of the subject matter, transposition of composition, shape, colour, and form; where what is seen becomes only a stimulus In 1985 Konjović’s...

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The Byzantine phaze

The final period of Konjović’s painting – which lasted from 1985 to 1990 – was inspired by Byzantine art, icons, and frescoes, and is known as the white or Byzantine phase Konjović transformed selected templates of religious and cultural significance into an exclusive artistic style in accordance with his own...

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The Donation of Vera Konjović Amidžić

The impressive collection of the Milan Konjović Gallery was significantly enriched in 2002, when Vera Konjović-Amidzić donated 17 paintings

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