Olja Ivanjicki
Olja (Olga) Ivanjicki (Serbian Cyrillic: Оља Ивањицки; 10 May 1931, in Pančevo – 24 June 2009, in Belgrade) was a Serbian painter, sculptor and poet.
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Olja Ivanjicki
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- Full name
- О́льга Васи́льевна Ивани́цкая.
- Born
- 1931. · Pančevo.
- Died
- 2009. · Belgrade.
- Nationality
- Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Occupation
- poet, painter, architect, writer, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist.
- Fields
- poetry and painting.
- Movements
- pop art.
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Belgrade.
- Honours
- Wolf Award.
- Languages
- Serbian.
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Olja (Olga) Ivanjicki (Serbian Cyrillic: Оља Ивањицки; 10 May 1931, in Pančevo – 24 June 2009, in Belgrade) was a Serbian painter, sculptor and poet.
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Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in Pančevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid Šejka, Vladimir Veličković, Ljubomir Popović, Miodrag Đurić. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design. She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received the Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karić Award.
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1931
Olja Ivanjicki was born on 5 October 1931.
1970
Olja Ivanjicki (2 catalogued editions) (1970) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
2009
Olja Ivanjicki died on 24 June 2009.
2009
Olja Ivanjicki (2009) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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Večni uslov – poezija (Eternal Condition - Poetry), Novosti, Belgrade 2008, ISBN 978-86-7446-134-1. Painting the Future, Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-85667-663-5.
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- 1.Olga Olja Ivanjicki. Hronologija izlaganja skulpture u Srbiji. 2021-11-15.
- 2.Biography by Olga Ivanjicki Foundation, Retrieved on 2017-05-06.
- 3.Olga Ivanjicki (PDF) by Čitajteo Project , Retrieved on 2017-05-06.
- 4.Kako žive beogradski slikari - Mediala (1964), TV-documentary on YouTube, Retrieved on 2017-05-06.
- 5.Karić Award Laureates 2008 , Retrieved on 2017-05-21.
- 6.Olga Ivanjicki in COBISS.SR , Retrieved on 2017-05-06.
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