Heritage Guide

2. Biography of artist

Sava Sumanovic (1896-1942) left 867 works of art in various techniques that have been cataloged. However, it is assumed that this number is much higher He was born on January 22, 1896, in Vinkovci, where his father, Milutin, worked as a manager of the Forestry Department. After his father’s retirement,...

5. Young Couple on a Bench in Town

One of Sumanovic’s compositions that heralds the genre paintings of the Sid period is undoubtedly the oil on canvas Young Couple on a Bench in Town, painted in 1928. The painting represents a contemporary urban motif from the streets of Paris

11. Winter in Sid

The snow of Sid, the winter landscape, inspired Sumanovic only after several years spent in Sid as if the artist was not interested in the subject How did Sumanovic paint snow? Let’s look at these three anthology canvases

13. By the Little Forest

In 1935, Sava Sumanovic painted a large format with five nudes – By the Little Forest. This painting precedes the Bathers or Women from Sid in its form and style By the Little Forest, an oil on canvas from 1935, shows five female figures on the exterior. All the models...

14. Bathers

In the Gallery’s permanent exhibition, you can always see fourteen large formats belonging to the cycle Women from Sid or Bathers. This is only a part of the paintings from this cycle, which is kept in the Gallery

15. Triptych Pickers

One of the frequent motifs between 1938 and 1942 is work in the vineyard. On the widely laid out vineyards, we recognize people working: spraying the vineyard, picking grapes, and carrying heavy baskets of grapes Towards the end of his life, Sumanovic started working on a new series. We do...

18. Landscapes

During the last decade, Sava Sumanovic painted 600 paintings, of which 219 are landscapes, today part of the Gallery’s art collection In 1928, Sumanovic created the first landscape paintings of Sid’s surroundings – Sremske krajine, or Srem Region. It is a series in which Sumanovic recorded his homeland’s unique atmosphere...

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The Vršac Castle

Vršac Castle, or Vršac Tower, was built on a hill 399 meters above sea level In the decades after the Mongol invasion, it is believed that the Castle in Vršac was also built, and the first preserved information about it dates from 1323. At the beginning of the 15th century,...

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Natural history collection

The natural history collection was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. According to the preserved data, it was intensively collected between 1906 and 1910 The ornithological collection, as the most complete and, at the same time, the most important collection, has 175 taxidermy mounts, exceptionally well preserved