Katarina Ivanović
Katarina Ivanović (15 April 1811 – 22 September 1882) was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.
Katarina Ivanović

Katarina Ivanović · Public domain
- Born
- 1811. · Veszprém.
- Died
- 1882. · Székesfehérvár.
- Nationality
- Serbia.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts and Munich.
- Languages
- Serbian, German and Hungarian.
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Katarina Ivanović (15 April 1811 – 22 September 1882) was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.
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Katarina Ivanović (1811–1882) was a Serbian painter. Born in Veszprém, the painter died in Székesfehérvár.
Katarina Ivanović studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The painter was a member of Serbian Learned Society.
Genres include portrait. Languages used include German, Hungarian and Serbian. Works by Katarina Ivanović are held at National Museum of Serbia.
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Biography
Biography
Katarina Ivanović studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The recorded working language is Serbian, German and Hungarian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Katarina Ivanović is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Serbia.
Ivanović was born in Veszprém in the Austrian Empire to a middle-class family, and grew up in Székesfehérvár. She initially studied painting in Budapest and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1835. Her friends and supporters included Teodor Pavlović, who wrote about her in Serbski Narodni List, and Sima Milutinović, who devoted a poem to her in 1837. Ivanović traveled to Italy, France and Holland, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1843 and 1845. She worked in Belgrade from 1846 to 1847, where she painted portraits of notable people of the era, including Princess Persida Nenadović and Voivode Stevan Knićanin. In later years, she spent a lot of time traveling and living at different places, including Paris and Zagreb. Ivanović returned and died in Székesfehérvár in 1882. Her remains were transferred to Belgrade New Cemetery in 1967.
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Gallery
• Illustration — Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1840) • Illustration — Italian winemaker (1842) • Illustration — The Conquest of Belgrade (1844–45) • Illustration — Stevan Knićanin (1847) • Illustration — Persida Nenadović-Karadjordjević (1847)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1811
Katarina Ivanović born at Veszprém.
1882
Katarina Ivanović died at Székesfehérvár.
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Veszprém.
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Székesfehérvár.
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Work and legacy
She brought new themes to Serbian painting: Genre art and still life. She was stylistically in between the ideas of Biedermeier and Romanticism; she tried her hand at painting historical compositions but had her greatest achievements as a portrait painter. Of special note are her self-portraits. As the first educated Serbian painter, in February 1876 she became the first woman member of the Serbian Learned Society and one of the founders of the National Museum in Belgrade. Ivanović bequeathed most of her paintings to the National Museum, where they were transferred after her death. Her work known to date consists of 48 paintings, ten of which have been lost.
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- 1.Ivanovic Katarina. www.sanu.ac.rs.
- 2.Katarina Ivanović Autori Aukcijska Kuća Srbinovski. srbinovski-art.com.
- 3.https://biblioteka.cuprija.rs/istorijska-citanka/katarina-ivanovic
- 4.Katarina Ivanović: prva članica Srpskog učenog društva. P-portal. 2024-09-26.
- 5.Arte - Katarina Ivanović - Biografija. www.arte.rs.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Kusovac, Nikola. Katarina Ivanović: emlékkíallítás. István Király Múzeum. 1983.
- Kusovac, Nikola. Katarina Ivanović: (1811–1882): Galerija Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 1984.
- Timotijević, Miroslav. Katarina Ivanović. National Museum of Serbia. 2004. 978-86-83429-09-7.
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