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16-549: Alongside Veljko Petrović, notable alumni of the school include Ivan Radović , Milan Konjović , Gaja Alaga , Bogdan Maglich , Tihomir Novakov , Sima Ćirković , Iván Gutman , Irinej Bulović and others. In 2022 the 150 Years of Gymnasium in Sombor book by Dr. Attila Pfajfer, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad , was published with support from

32-462: A different way: portraits, interiors, nudes, still-lifes and landscapes". Academy of Fine Arts, Prague The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague ( Czech : Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze ; AVU ) is an art college in Prague , Czech Republic . Founded in 1799, it is the oldest art college in the country. The school offers twelve master's degree programs and one doctoral program. Starting in

48-781: The Academy of Fine Arts and then went to Paris . He moved to Belgrade in 1927. He taught at a school in Stanišić . Afterwards, he taught at the young girls' high school in Sombor . In 1929 he organized his breakthrough third exhibition in the Belgrade Pavilion of Arts, " Cvijeta Zuzorić ". In 1929 Radović participated in the National Championships in Zagreb . The same year, he was ranked third behind Franjo Šefer and Krešimir Friedrich . Thus he

64-488: The Latin Grammar School caused dissatisfaction among parents motivating authorities to open the public school already at the beginning of the next school year. First ideas about the opening of gymnasium in the city appeared already in 1819 when Serb community in Sombor collected 20,000 forints for the new school but the town authorities failed to ensure the land for the new institution. In 1830 6-class gymnasium program

80-693: The Belgrade International tournament final. He and Šefer met in the mixed doubles final as well, where the latter teamed with Lili Schräger and beat the duo of Radović and Magda Baumgarten of Hungary. In 1931 Radović reached the doubles semifinal of the international Balkan Cup tournament at the Bob Club in Belgrade. Radović enlisted into the Royal Yugoslav Army in April 1941, during World War II . He

96-593: The City of Sombor and the Provincial Secretariat for Education of Vojvodina. The first educational institution at the site of gymnasium was the Latin Grammar School established in 1781. The school building used at that time was built at the site of an earlier Ottoman bath where in 1698 Martin Lipković received permission to build a brewery and a post office. The decision by Franciscan friar Fra Bona Mihaljević to close

112-649: The early 18th century, a series of organizations were formed in Prague with an interest in promoting art and education . Thanks in part to their efforts, the Academy of Fine Arts was founded by Imperial Decree on September 10, 1799. Joseph Bergler the Younger was the first director. It began with instruction in drawing . The academy was gradually expanded to include programs in architecture , painting , printmaking , and sculpture , among others. In 1990 drastic reforms were undertaken by rector Milan Knížák to reorganize

128-407: The emotional, instinctive and irrational". His two main eras are the neoclassicism style in 1922–1926 and the abstract style between 1923 and 1924. He was strongly influenced by Venetian renaissance and German Expressionism . Radović's naivism is characterized by "violet and greenish-yellow colours, with a gradual lightening of the gamut, with the introduction of new and recreation of old themes in

144-599: The immediate aftermath of the liberation of Sombor in October 1944 and until the end of April 1945, the gymnasium building housed a military hospital for the Soviet Red Army and the Yugoslav Partisan Army. In 1968 the school was named after its alumni Veljko Petrović . Ivan Radovi%C4%87 Ivan Radović ( Serbian Cyrillic : Иван Радовић [ǐʋan rǎːdoʋitɕ] ; 22 June 1894 – 14 August 1973)

160-633: The way up until the end of World War I when Banat, Bačka and Baranja joined the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . On average, at that time the school had between 250 and 350 students in each class with about half of them from Sombor, and other half from the Bács-Bodrog County or neighbouring areas. Between 1918 and 1923 classes were again conducted both in Serbian and Hungarian while from 1923 classes in Hungarian were discontinued. In

176-669: Was a Serbian - Yugoslav tennis player and painter . Ivan Radović graduated from the Teacher's College in Sombor , where he finished as a drawing teacher. He went to Budapest in order to continue his studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts . He attended the class of Hungarian painter István Réti . He spent his student years in Hungary between 1917 and 1920. He then spent the 1921 school year visiting Munich , Prague , and Venice , and stayed in Prague where he studied art at

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192-586: Was defeated in the doubles. Radović represented his country once more in a friendly match against Hungary in Szeged in June 1930. The team was composed of him and Šefer. Although he lost both of his singles matches, Šefer made it a tie with two victories and they claimed the doubles to close the meeting three to two rubbers. In October he became a Yugoslavian doubles champion, pairing with Šefer, after successfully defeating Emil Gabrowitz of Hungary and compatriot Friedrich in

208-574: Was established only in 1869 but it remained open only for 2 years. The current institution was finally established in 1872 as the State Gymnasium of Sombor . At the beginning the school enrolled only four grades of students but with one additional higher grade introduced each subsequent school year until 1876/77 when it expanded to eight grades institution. In 1886 the school was moved to the current building inspired by North German architecture, where classes were now conducted in Hungarian exclusively all

224-472: Was initiated in the town and from 1853 it provided German and Serbian language elementary gymnasium classes. Sombor's Roman Catholic elementary schools introduced four-year school curriculum in 1846 with Orthodox schools following with the same decision in 1855. In 1843 the town appointed a commission on the proposed new gymnasium but this decision was not followed by the establishment of the school. The Town of Sombor Gymnasium in Serbian and Hungarian language

240-586: Was invited onto the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team and travelled to Athens with them to face Greece . The Yugoslavian team lost and Radović remained a reserve player. In 1930 the Yugoslavian squad hosted a first-round match against Sweden and celebrated their first and flawless victory in the Cup. Radović also won in the doubles, partnering Šefer. He retired from the team after the next match against Spain , in which he

256-545: Was soon taken prisoner and transported to a German concentration camp. He was released just before the end of the war. Radović became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1970. He died in 1973 and was buried in Belgrade's Novo groblje cemetery. Radović's art is described as "evocative of the works of Le Douanier Rousseau , Gauguin and Chagall went through several stages which often overlapped as parallel research does, from contemplative rationalism to

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