Anastas Jovanović
Anastas Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Анастас Јовановић, Bulgarian: Анастас Йованович 1817 – 1 November 1899) was a Serbian photographer and author of Bulgarian origin.
Anastas Jovanović
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Anastas Jovanović · Public domain
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- 1817. · Vratsa.
- Died
- 1899. · Belgrade.
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- Serbia.
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
- Languages
- Serbian.
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Anastas Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Анастас Јовановић, Bulgarian: Анастас Йованович 1817 – 1 November 1899) was a Serbian photographer and author of Bulgarian origin.
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Jovanović, was of Bulgarian origin and during his life he always felt himself a Bulgarian and at the same time a Serb. He was born in Vratsa, an important administrative and garrison city under Ottoman rule in 1817. When Anastas was 9 years old, his father sent him to continue his education in Belgrade, where his uncle worked at the Prince Obrenović sewing studio. In 1830, after the death of Anastas' father, his family moved to Belgrade. But only after one year his uncle who was their support died too. Anastas' son Konstantin Jovanović (1849–1923) was a prominent architect. Anastas's daughter Katarina Jovanović was a prominent Serbian to German translator. He was awarded the Order of Prince Danilo I.
Memorial to Anastas Jovanovic in Belgrade, in front of the PIO Fund in New Belgrade
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1817
Anastas Jovanović born at Vratsa.
1899
Anastas Jovanović died at Belgrade.
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- 1.During his life, Anastas Jovanović always felt himself a Bulgarian, and at the same time a Serb. For some time, Jovanović signed under his lithographs as a "Bulgarian lithographer". In his memoirs about his teaching in Belgrade in 1871-1874, the Bulgarian ethnographer Dimitar Marinov noted that Anastas Jovanović was an honorary member of the Bulgarian Society in the city. Krumka Sharova, "Problemi na bŭlgarskoto vŭzrazhdane", Volume 6, Institut za istoria (Bŭlgarska akademia na naukite), 1981, str. 302.
- 2.Фотографско общество, Враца. Големият сръбски фотограф Анастас Йованович е врачанин, 26, ноември 2013 г. по в-к „Дума“/СБЖ – П.П.
- 3.Ivan Gaberov, Neĭko Genchev, Sŭvremenna bŭlgarska entsiklopediia: Dopŭlneni͡a i popravki (A-A), Volume 5, Izd-vo "Elpis", 1995, str. 255.
- 4.Acović, Dragomir. Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Službeni Glasnik. 85. 2012.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Djordjević, Miodrag. "Anastas Jovanović, The first Serbian photographer." History of Photography 4.2 (1980): 139-163.
- Popović, Radomir J. "Dodaci i dopune memoara Anastasa Jovanovića." Godišnjak Grada Beograda 65 (2018): 41-55.
- Popović, Radomir J. "Anastas Jovanović–angažovani obrenovićevac." (2017): 53-67.
- Пераћ, Јелена. Анастас Јовановић (1817-1899): пионир примењене уметности и дизајна. Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2017.
- Anastas Jovanović. 2020.
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