PAVLE BELJANSKI AND HIS COLLECTION

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3 1892 Born on 7/19 June in Veliko Gradište as the fourth child of Milana Beljanski, née Kostić ( ) and Svetozar Beljanski ( ) Graduated on 3 June from the First Belgrade High School; enrolled in the Law School at the University of Belgrade Completed his lectures at the Law School at the University of Belgrade; on 15 July, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia; World War I begins; on 1 September he joined the Student Battalion; on 1 November, he was promoted to corporal and as early as 3 November, he was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the 1 st company of the 2 nd battalion, the 5 th infantry regiment, 2 nd brigade of the Drina division On 1 January, Pavle Beljanski was promoted to staff sergeant and then retreated with the army through Albania; on 19 August, he was pronounced unfit to serve by the High Command Medical panel in Skadar and as a non-combatant in Corfu, he was assigned to the Liaison unit of the Danube division On 16 July, by the Decree of the Minister of War, he was relieved of military duty; he resumed his law studies in Paris On 17 July, he graduated from the Sorbonne as a lawyer specializing in the diplomatic-consular field On 15 June, he received his master s degree at the Sorbonne and registered his doctoral thesis in the diplomatic-consular field His doctoral studies were interrupted due to his new position; on 3 March he began his diplomatic career as a 1 st class clerk in the Royal Embassy in Stockholm and on 1 May he was already promoted to secretary; he started taking an interest in collecting art; on 16 July, Pavle Beljanski was awarded with the Order of Isabella the Catholic of the 5 th class On 1 September, he becam secretary in the Berlin Embassy; on 14 February, he was appointed secretary, 4 th class, in the Warsaw Embassy, on 29 July he was transferred back to Berlin He received a Diploma from Pope Benedict XV On 1 February, he was relieved of duty in Berlin and assigned to the Royal Embassy in Warsaw; on 13 February, he was promoted to secretary, 2 nd class On 14 March, he was appointed secretary of the Royal Embassy in Vienna; In Vienna he met painter Marino Tartaglia and posed for the painting Young Diplomat; he

4 decided to abandon collecting paintings by old masters ( Luckily, I ceased with this futile business in 1923 and decided to dedicate myself exclusively to collecting works by artists coming from my native soil ); on 2 August, he was awarded with the Order of Polonia Restituta, 5 th class On 9 August, he was promoted to secretary in the 6 th group of the 1 st category; from 25 December, he worked in the Political Directory in Belgrade On 13 December, Pavle Beljanski received the French Order of the Legion of Honour of the 5 th class He received the Order of the White Eagle, 4 th class and the Order of Polonia Restituta, 3 rd class; on 10 April, he was promoted to 5 th group secretary, 1 st category; on 14 May he was appointed general manager of the Political Directory in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade; on 28 December, he was appointed Section-manager of the Royal delegation with the Committee of Reparations in Paris. Pavle Beljanski (Warsaw, 1923) 1929 On 8 February, he was appointed chief secretary of the Embassy in Paris; on 18 March, at an auction held in the Hôtel Druot in Paris he bought the painting La Toilette de l Odalisque by Vlaho Bukovac, better known today as La Grande Iza (1882); he received the Czech Order of the White Lion 4 th class On 12 June, he was appointed Commissioner of Goods Delivery in Paris; he stayed in Paris until the end of the year, where he met the painter Milan Konjović On 12 November, he was transferred to the Administrative Department in Belgrade; he was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold 4 th class On 21 January, he was promoted to the rank of counsellor of the 4 th group, 2 nd class; on 17 September, he was transferred to work on special affairs in the Administrative Department; he travelled to Egypt; he was the best man at Milo Milunović s and Olga Bogdanović s wedding in Belgrade; from 3 to 17 November, M. Čelebonović, M. Konjović, M. Milunović and J. Perić participated in the Exhibition of Yugoslav Artists in Paris On 13 March, Beljanski became head of the 4 th section of the Legal Department; on 3 July, he was best man at the wedding of Petar Lubarda and Jelena Jovanović in Belgrade; at the insistence of Milan Kašanin, he donated the painting Laundress (1932) by M. Konjović, which had been dedicated to him by the painter, to the National Museum in Belgrade. Order of the Legion of Honour (1927) Wedding of Milo Milunović and Olga Bogdanović (Belgrade, Fall 1932) 1935 On 26 September, Pavle Beljanski was appointed counsellor of the Royal Embassy in Rome, on 20 October, he assumed his duties; he authorized painter Jefto Perić to choose and purchase pieces for his collection On 31 March, he was promoted to counsellor of the 4 th group, 1 st class at the Royal Embassy in Rome; he was awarded the Royal Order of Saint Sava, 3 rd class.

5 1937 From 10 to 24 June, the Exhibition of Contemporary Yugoslav Art was held in Rome, Pavle Beljanski took part in the organization (the exhibition was opened by minister Galeazzo Ciano, the foreword in the catalogue was written by Veljko Petrović); from 25 September to 11 October, Beljanski was Chargé d Affaires in the Royal Embassy in Rome; in Rome he was awarded the Order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus, 3 rd class From 1 August to 11 September, he assumed the post of the Chargé d Affaires in Rome again On 23 October, he was awarded the Order of Saint Sava, 2 nd class; he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy On 8 May, Pavle Beljanski was promoted to counsellor of the 3 rd group, 2 nd class in the Royal Embassy in Rome; on 25 August, he was appointed manager of the Political Department; on 7 October, he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade as counsellor of the 3 group, 2 nd class; on 5 December, he was appointed assistant manager of the Legal Department On 15 November, he retired as a result of the Decision of the Council of Ministers and the representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs On 24 September seven members of Pavle Beljanski family were killed during an air raid in Svilajnac: his brother Nikola with wife Stefánia Gorgonyi, his two sisters Ana Anka Isaković and Aleksandra Sanda Joksimović, Aleksandra s children Dragomir and Nada with Nino Ristić, Nada s husband On 1 March, he returned to diplomacy he was appointed counsellor of the 3 rd group, 2 nd class and organized the protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; his art collection was on display to the public for the first time on 27 October; the City Museum and Library in Sombor were opened with The Exhibition of 67 Works of Art From the Collection of Pavle Beljanski; the writer Veljko Petrović gave a speech at the opening; the exhibition in Sombor was on display until March Pavle Beljanski gave lectures on protocol at the Diplomatic School; September October: The National Museum in Belgrade organized an exhibition entitled Painting and Sculpture of the Peoples of Yugoslavia in the 19 th and 20 th Century, where eight pieces from Beljanski s collection by P. Lubarda, M. Konjović, M. Čelebonović, M. Milunović and S. Aralica were exhibited; from 1946 to 1948, the exhibition appeared in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Moscow, Leningrad, Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava and Budapest; he was awarded the Polish Golden Cross of Merit and the Order of the Star of Honour of Ethiopia On 31 March, he was promoted to Chief of Protocol of the 3 rd group, 1 st class in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on 30 May, the decision was made to found the Museum of Vojvodina and the Gallery of Matica Srpska; on 15 September, he was appointed

6 deputy head of the protocol of the 3 rd group, 1 st class; on 3 November, he became a diplomatic-consular counsellor On 26 December, the Gallery of Matica Srpska was opened to the public On 14 March, Pavle Beljanski was promoted to the rank of counsellor, 1 st class of the diplomatic-consular field by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs September: a solo exhibition of works by Mića Popović at the Art Pavilion in Belgrade. Pavle Beljanski in Rome (27 March 1937) 1951 February March: nine art pieces from the Collection of Pavle Beljanski were exhibited at the exhibition entitled Seventy Paintings and Sculptures From in the ULUS Gallery; Pavle Beljanski negotiated the exhibition of the collection in Switzerland; from 18 March to 1 April: an exhibition of works by Milan Konjović entitled People, Art Pavilion, Belgrade; from 1 May to 1 June: Petar Lubarda s solo exhibition, the ULUS Gallery, Belgrade On 26 March an exhibition of 68 works of art from Beljanski s Collection was opened in the Belgrade City Museum, accompanied by a speech by Zora Simić Milovanović; due to insufficient space, only a part of the collection was exhibited, and the display was changed several times until the end of the exhibition in 1957 so that the public could see the collection as a whole; the Caryatid by Risto Stijović from Pavle Beljanski s Collection was exhibited at the 26 th Biennale in Venice From November 1953 to January 1954, artworks from Pavle Beljanski s Collection were on display at an exhibition entitled Half a Century of Yugoslav Painting at the National Museum in Belgrade. Pavle Beljanski and Predrag Isaković ( ) 1954 On 31 May, Pavle Beljanski was awarded the Order of the Yugoslav Flag, 2 nd class, by the Decree of the president of FPRY, Josip Broz Tito; he was awarded the Order of the Honour of Athens and the Order of the Phoenix; on 1 August, he was promoted to the minister plenipotentiary of the 3 rd group On 20 June, he was appointed member of the Council of the Belgrade City Museum. The welcome committee of Hla Maung (left), the first ambassador of Burma in Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 23 April 1955) 1956 The Yugoslav theater festival Sterijino pozorje was founded; the permanent display of The Gallery of Matica Srpska was opened in a building of the former Commodities Market On 16 April, Pavle Beljanski was promoted to the minister plenipotentiary of the 2 nd group; in September, La Grande Iza was exhibited at a retrospective exhibition of Vlaho Bukovac, organized by JAZU in Zagreb; on 5 September, the location for the future gallery was determined in the Cara Lazara Street, next to the newly opened Gallery of Matica Srpska; on 18 November, the Donation Contract was signed, whereby Pavle

7 Beljanski donated his collection of artworks from the first half of the 20 th century to the Serbian people, through the mediation of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina; it was signed by Geza Tikvicki on behalf of the Assembly of the APV; the artistic fund comprised 151 works of art (136 paintings and 15 sculptures); an important clause in the contract required the construction of a separate building to house and exhibit the collection; Pavle Beljanski was elected member of the Council of the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade On 6 May, the National Committee of the municipality of Novi Sad released an open competition all over Yugoslavia for the design of the building of the Memorial Collection; on 8 June, the members of the panel Pavle Beljanski, Todor Jovanović, Vojislav Midić, Oliver Minić, Aleksandar Đorđević, Milivoj Nikolajević and Sava Popović revealed that three designs had been submitted (by architects Bogdan Bogdanović, Milorad Macura and Ratomir Bogojević) and that all three have approached the problem at hand in an original and studious manner ; the design by architect Bogojević won first prize, but none of the designs were proposed for the actual realization; Ivo Kurtović s request for postponement was accepted; on 15 June, Ivo Kurtović submitted the design for the building of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection to the panel; in August, the construction of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection building began; on 2 September, Beljanski was appointed member of the Serbian Council of Culture committee for the purchase of artworks; on 1 November, he retired holding the rank of senior counsellor and the minister plenipotentiary July August: works by Milica Zorić and Peđa Milosavljević from Beljanski s Collection were on display at the Exhibition of Yugoslav Artists (Sculptures, Paintings, Tapestries) in the Grimaldi Museum at the Antibes, Côte d Azur; Pavle Beljanski concieved a thematic cycle for Zora Petrović related to Kosovo but the project was never completed; on 17 October, Pavle Beljanski was a member of the panel of the October Salon; on 24 October, he was appointed member of the Purchase Committee of the State Secretariat of Foreign Affairs; from December to January 1961, tapestries by Milica Zorić from Pavle Beljanski s collection were exhibited in the Paris City Museum of Modern Art On 1 August, Vera Jovanović was employed as the first curator of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection; on 11 October, the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina reached a Decision on the founding of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection as an independent institution and appointed the members of the council: the public attorney of the APV Žarko Matijašević (as president), Secretary in the Council of Culture of APV Katarina Sokolović, retired minister plenipotentiary of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Pavle Beljanski, manager of the Gallery of Matica srpska, Milivoj Nikolajević, manager of the Matica Srpska Publishing Company, Sava Josić, writer Boško Petrović, painter Peđa Milosavljević; on 17/18 October, Pavle Beljanski stayed in Novi Sad to participate in the organization of the display of his art collection; on 22 October, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was opened to the public; guests were greeted at a gala opening in the reception hall of the Gallery of Matica Srpska by Radomir Raša Radujkov, president of the Council of Culture at the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina; the guests made a tour of the exhibition in the newly built building of the Memorial Collection; 600 guests were present at the opening; the first catalogue of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was published with a preface by Momčilo Stevanović and Pavle Beljanski; the drawing on the front page was done by Đorđe Tabaković; by 21 December, in the first three months, the exhibition was seen by 3,852 visitors, among others by Wil-

8 liam Douglas, judge of the US Supreme Court who visited The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection immediately after the opening (on 29 October); work was started on cataloguing, compiling an inventory and photographing the artworks; the paintings and the frames were restored (which marked the beginning of cooperation with the painter Rista Ćinkulov), the depot was equipped; the administration was organized; nine full-time workers were hired; the collection was made up of 173 exhibits The first inventory of exhibits was made; photos of the artworks were done by Dragoljub Kažić, as well as by Dušan Tasić, Tošo Dabac, Dušan Stanimirović, Aleksandar Aca Simić and Jugoreklam ; with the establishment of the Documentary Fund a systematic gathering of archival and documentary materials on the artists from the collection began; the second edition of the catalogue of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was published along with an information leaflet on the Memorial Collection with a preface by Vera Jovanović; on 8 June, the first statute was passed; paintings from the collection were exhibited at the Sava Šumanović Memorial. The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, drawing by Đorđe Tabaković (1961) 1963 The artworks were photographed by Silvester More and Ljubiša Savić; the exhibition of the Memorial Collection was seen by 11,385 visitors; on 16 February, the French art critic and writer Jean Cassou visited the exhibition and wrote the following into the guest book: I was enchanted by this stroll through the Yugoslav art of an era, so emotional and unique in the way it is presented to us by this collection which is proof of the taste and spirit of its creator. There is a sense of spirituality; here is an entire clearly-formed world, and one of rare quality, with a refined and authentic poetry. The Swedish ambassador Sven Backlund, Swedish Minister of Culture Ragnar Edenman with his wife and the members of the French Parliament were among the visitors; on 31 March, the Memorial Collection was visited by the Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos and his wife Eva Samano de López Mateos, during an official visit to Yugoslavia, accompanied by the president of the FPRY, Josip Broz Tito, and his wife Jovanka Broz. The guests were met by Pavle Beljanski himself, as well as by the president of the National Assembly of the APV, Stevan Doronjski, with his wife, the president of the Executive Council of the APV, Đurica Jojkić and his wife, rector of the university, Laza Stojković, Mayor Tima Vrbaški and others. We must pay tribute to a man who collected and donated such beautiful paintings to his people, Josip Broz Tito wrote in the guest book on that occasion; the permanent exhibition was altered by the replacement of 20 art works; among others, works by Sreten Stojanović: A Portrait of Nataša Bošković and the relief entitled Necklace were included; on 8 August, the Memorial Collection was included in the register of institutions with independent funding, as a special type of art gallery; on 3 April, at the request of Prof. Gyetvai Károly, head of the Civil Law Department of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad, the students were given a lecture on Pavle Beljanski s Donation Contract in which mutual obligations were exceptionally well justified; a proposal was made for the first monograph of the Memorial collection entitled Modern Serbian Art and Pavle Beljanski s Collection ; the following authors were suggested: Pavle Vasić, Momčilo Stevanović, Peđa Milosavljević, Katarina Ambrozić, Lazar Trifunović, Miodrag B. Protić, Siniša Vuković and Vera Jovanović (unpublished). The grand opening of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in The Gallery of Matica Srpska (22 October1961) William O. Douglas visits The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (1961) The exhibition was seen by 14,385 visitors, among whom were the writer Archibald Cronin, US Senator William Fulbright, the manager of the Soviet press agency TASS, Dmitry Petrovich Goriunov, the CIA officer Basil Davidson, distinguished revolutionary Elisaveta Berkovich Matveyevna, participants in the Slavist conference on Vuk Karadžić, the president of the State Committee of Art And Culture of the Peoples Republic of Romania, Constąnca Crăciun, with members of her delegation, and others; the

9 number of visitors grew while important events took place in Belgrade and Novi Sad; on 12 August, Pavle Beljanski donated the painting Flowers by Zora Petrović, as well as 14 documents and original photographs to the Documentary Fund; the collection had a total of 173 works of art, of which 127 were on display and the remaining 46 were occasionally included in the display; Beljanski donated a significant number of books on art from his private library, along with the period glass bookshelf to the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade; a seven-year plan of the town authorities involved the placing of information boards next to the bridge at the entrance to the town, in front of the Serbian National Theater, by the entrance to the Novi Sad Fair, on the central town square (the boards have not been put up to this day) On 24 April, bas-reliefs by Nebojša Mitrić entitled The Great Hunt and The Ancient Hunt were added to the collection of sculptures; on 27 May a Donation Contract was signed, whereby Pavle Beljanski donated the painting La Grande Iza by Vlaho Bukovac to the Memorial Collection and introduced the award for the best graduation and seminar papers by students from the Art History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Vera Jovanović signed the contract on behalf of the Memorial Collection; Pavle Beljanski was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Republic, 2 nd class; Beljanski donated the family icon The Stoning of Saint Stephen to the parish church in Gospođinci; on 14 July Pavle Beljanski died in Belgrade; friends and dignitaries bade him farewell on 15 June in a chapel at the New Cemetery in Belgrade; on the 16 July, he was buried in the family tomb in the Gospođinci parish churchyard; among those who bade Beljanski farewell were the minister plenipotentiary in the State Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, Zvonko Perišić, and member of the Executive Council of the Province Radomir Radujkov; the funeral was attended by the president of the Assembly of Vojvodina Radovan Vlajković, Assistant state secretary for Foreign Affairs Ivo Sarajčić, president of the Cultural and Educational Council of the Assembly Miladin Gvozdenov, secretary of the Novi Sad Municipality Committee of the Communist Party Dušan Alimpić, president of the Municipal Assembly Tima Vrbaški, president of the Municipal Board of the Socialist Alliance Jovan Dejanović, acting chief of protocol France Žugelj, as well as representatives of many cultural establishments from Novi Sad; moved by the funeral, Milan Konjović dedicated the painting Sun Over Bačka to the memory of his late friend and donated it to the Memorial Collection; the art fund of the Memorial Collection had a total of 185 artworks by 37 artists On 8 July, the Milan Konjović Gallery was founded, as a result of the donation by this painter; on 18 September, the Memorial Collection was opened to public for the second time (after a pause to construct an annex to the building and a ventilation system for air-conditioning); Pavle Beljanski s dedication was placed on a wall in the lobby; on 6 October, Predrag Isaković on behalf of the family and Vera Jovanović on behalf of the Memorial Collection, signed the contract which fulfilled Pavle Beljanski s wish to set aside from his legacy pieces of furniture, paintings, books and personal items as future exhibits in the Pavle Beljanski Memorial; Pavle Beljanski s legacy was transferred from Belgrade: 14 paintings, 4 sculptures, 2 tapestries, 17 pieces of period furniture, 4 objects of applied art, the painting Young Diplomat by Marino Tartaglia, a total of 43 objects, as well as 354 books on art for the future Pavle Beljanski Memorial; Tinka Pivnički photographed the art works for the purpose of documentation and reproduction On 3 March, part of the office space was temporarily given to the newly-established Gallery of Contemporary Visual Art; the Memorial Collection was visited by a group of Soviet pioneers, guests of the Jo Pajtás children s magazine, as well as by the vicechancellor of Austria and minister of industry and commerce, Fritz Bock, accompa-

10 nied by the Austrian ambassador in Belgrade, Karl Hartl with his wife and Yugoslav dignitaries; on 28 September, the first Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award Regulations Manual was presented; the Award was given for the best graduation paper in Yugoslav Art History; on 29 September, the first jury panel for the Award was appointed, consisting of: Žarko Matijašević (president), Momčilo Stevanović and Vera Jovanović (members) from the Memorial Collection, and Prof. Svetozar Radojčić, and Prof. Dejan Medaković, from the Department of Art History; in the academic year 1966/67 there were no defended student entries and thus the Award was not given The Memorial Collection was visited by the representatives of Romania and the SFRY: Nicolae Ceauşescu with his wife Elena, Josip Broz Tito with his wife Jovanka and the president of the Romanian government, Georgi Maurer, with his wife, and the former president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch with his wife, a delegation from the twin city of Modena, the hero of the Soviet Union Marina Checheneva, the French ambassador with the embassy officials and others; the third, extended edition of the catalogue of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was published with texts by Momčilo Stevanović, Pavle Beljanski and Vera Jovanović; on 24 November, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial opening ceremony was held. During the ceremony, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given for the first time to Marica Šuput from Belgrade for her paper entitled The Banjska Monastery. The Diploma was produced by the graphic artist Dušan Janković according to the design of Nebojša Mitrić. Stevan Doronjski, Pavle Beljanski, Josip Broz Tito and Adolfo López Mateos (31 March 1963) 1969 The Memorial Collection was visited by Dolores de la Mora, the manager of the Museum of Fine Arts from Mexico, the president of the Assembly of Serbia, Dragoljub Marković, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Willy Spühler, with his wife, the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan, Gamal Mohamed Ahmet, the secretary of the Costa Rica Union, Juan Alvarez Morales, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, Goronwy-Roberts and others; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vesna Jovanović Todorović In honour of the memory of Pavle Beljanski, painter, art historian and academician Ljubo Babić donated a portrait of Agnes Antonija Babić from his family legacy to the Memorial Collection (1825); greeting cards with 18 motifs from Pavle Beljanski s Collection from slides taken by Sekula Medenica were printed for the first time; Sava Šumanović s painting Luncheon on the Grass was restored; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the Cypriot minister of Foreign Affairs Spiros Cyprianu with his wife, the American ambassador William Lenhart with his wife, a Swiss parliamentary delegation headed by Georges André Chevallaz, sailors from the USSR Black Sea Fleet, the president of the Federal Executive Council Mitja Ribičič, managers of Serbian gas stations, female basketball players from the USSR, the writer Branko Ćopić, Russian and Yugoslav pioneers, professor of the Zagreb University, Antun Bauer, actors from a puppet theater in Romania, an English Aviation Marshall, Claude Lee with his wife, prime minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia with his entourage, students from Leningrad University, president of the Bavarian government Alfons Goppel, with his wife (they had sailed to Novi Sad on the ship Theodor Kärner ), elementary school students from all over the country and others; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vasilije Sujić. Radomir Radujkov giving a speech at Pavle Beljanski s funeral (Gospođinci, 16 July 1965) Nicolae Ceauşescu and Josip Broz Tito (28 May 1968) 1971 On 22 October, the Artists Memorial was opened; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Orthodox bishop of the Timişoara eparchy with the Belgrade Orthodox bishop, banking experts from Germany, the president of the Federal Executive Coun-

11 cil Mika Špiljak with his entourage, the reporter Michel Carné de Cannavale, officials of the ministry of local self-government and municipal issues from Africa, Asia and Australia, guests of the Provincial Secretariat of Culture from the USA, a delegation of the Bulgarian Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, female employees from the American Embassy in Belgrade, student-members of the Art Club from Feketić, the Lord Mayor of Norwich with his wife, workers from the Social Accountancy Service from Priština, the Bulgarian minister of finances Dimitar Popov with the president of the planning committee Kiril Denev, the Australian Member of Parliament James Ford with his wife, the ambassador of Great Britain D. L. Stewart and others; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Mirjana Gligorijević Eight paintings from the Beljanski Collection were reproduced in the book A Hundred Works of Yugoslav Painting by Miodrag B. Protić; the exhibition of the Memorial Collection was visited by the Norwegian delegation for culture and cooperation, wives of the American astronauts, the Mayor of London, Robert Mitchell with his wife, a delegation of the Politburo of the CP of Peru headed by Maria Ugarte, president of the Belgian Socialist Party Joris (Jos) van Eynde with his wife, the Hungarian minister of finances Faluvégi Lajos with his wife, deputy chief editor of the Soviet magazine Inostranaya Literatura Oleg Sergeyevich Vasilyev accompanied by the poetess Mira Alečković, the secretary of the Ukrainian Central Committee with his entourage, wives of the members of the Mexican parliamentary delegation with entourage, a delegation of Soviet filmmakers, participants of the Danube regatta, Esuh Talmanu and the delegation of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UNESCO delegation of the International Committee of Extra-curricular Activities, the minister for the development of Holland, the wife of the president of the Cypriot Parliament with her daughter, the president of the Central Committee of the League of Yugoslav Communists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Branko Mikulić with Džemal Bijedić s wife Razija and others; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Sonja Bogdanović On 1 November, the Lazar Vozarević Gallery was opened in Sremska Mitrovica; the Memorial Collection was visited by the president of the Italian Interparliamentary Union, Giuseppe Vedovati; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Gordana Popović and Milana Veinović On 23 October, The Gallery of Fine Arts The Endowment Collection of Rajko Mamuzić was opened in Novi Sad; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vladislav Ristić The Memorial Collection was visited by the wife of the president of Gabon, Omar Bongo, a delegation of the Executive Council of the Macedonian Parliament, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, participants of the 19 Chess Championship, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, Santiago Carrillo, the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, George Macovescu with the president of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Nikola Kmezić, a military delegation of the Danube Fleet, a delegation of women from Southern Vietnam, the president of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Yugoslavia, Dušan Petrović Šane, a delegation of the Polish Parliament, a delegation of women from Kuwait, students from the Braća Miladinov secondary school from Struga; the catalogue information about Risto Stijović s sculptures was sent to the Yugoslavia publishing company for a monograph about Risto Stijović (it was not published); The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Zorica Zlatić.

12 1976 On 15 July, a law on The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was passed; professor Pavle Vasić taught practical classes in the Memorial Collection on the subject of visual elements to students of the Art Academy in Novi Sad; the Memorial Collection was visited by a union delegation from Croatia, the wife of the Angolan Prime Minister Maria do Nascimento, the wife of the Austrian vice-chancellor Rudolf Hauser; the Novi Sad television produced a film on Pavle Beljanski entitled In Love with Art ; senior curator Vera Jovanović received her master s degree at the Zagreb University in the field of museological sciences; the artworks of the Memorial Collection were photographed by Miodrag Đorđević and Stevan Bikit; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Branka Marić; the new batch of diplomas was done by the graphic artist Milan Stanojev according to the designs of Nebojša Mitrić. Sonja Bogdanović, the winner of the Award (1972) 1977 A monograph by Vera Jovanović entitled The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was published and Pavle Beljanski s wish, which was part of the Donation Contract, stating that all art pieces from the collection were to be reproduced in color, was fulfilled; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Attorney-general of the German Democratic Republic, the member of the executive committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Jack Woodis, the member of the Politburo of the French Communist Party, Paul Laurent, amateur painters from the Self-Government Club from Sombor, parliamentary delegations from India and Ireland, education workers who had won the Vuk Award, a group of 140 guests of the Bureau of International Tourist Exchange, art historian Boris Petkovski, from Skoplje, opera singer Melanija Bugarinović accompanied by composer Rudolf Bruči, Soviet writer Boris Dubovny accompanied by the poetess Desanka Maksimović, the wife of the National executive secretary of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania, Erica Msekwa and the wife of the secretary general of the Tanzanian Youth Organization, Rahma Liundi, the ambassador of German Democratic Republic with her husband, 30 tour guides from the USSR; Predrag Isaković donated a formal hat, as a part of Pavle Beljanski s formal diplomatic uniform; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Mirjana Milosavljević and Dragan Bulatović The Memorial Collection was visited by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, a delegation of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania, Iraqi minister Adnan Hassan Hamdani; thanks to the kind help of engineer Žarko Šuput, painter Milan Kerac printed two of Bogdan Šuput s linocuts; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Aleksandra Škorić. The Artists Memorial in In June, the first Children s Art Workshop was held, which involved copying works of art from Pavle Beljanski s collection, according to a project by curator-pedagogue, Nedeljko Milutin and in collaboration with the Đura Jakšić elementary school; the exhibition of their works was held in the Army Club in Novi Sad; the workshop and exhibition of children s paintings became a traditional event organized by the Memorial Collection; the workshops and exhibitions were led and organized by Nedeljko Milutin; in 1995 and 1996, the workshops were led by Dragana Bošković; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Minister of foreign affairs from Madagascar, Christian Rémy Richard; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Slađana Đurđekanović. Prince Charles signing the Memorial Collection guest book (27 October 1978) 1980 The notes and the letters enchanged between Ivan Tabaković and Nedeljko Gvozdenović were published, with a preface by Vera Jovanović; during the year, a total number of

13 29,258 visitors was documented; among others a delegation from Zambia, the Angolan minister of education, culture and science Ambrósio Lukoki with the Angolan ambassador Joao Felipe Marinius, wives of US officials, director of the UN Information Center in Belgrade Ghanim al-atraqchi, the Mayor of Athens Dimitrios Beis accompanied by the mayors of Belgrade and Novi Sad, Živorad Kovačević and Jovan Dejanović, the wife of the Libyan President Muammar al-gaddafi, Sophia al-gaddafi, the Mayor of Norwich, Valerie Guttsman, the wife of the Italian President Sandro Pertini, Carla Pertini and professor Graciella Magherini accompanied by Lepa Pavićević, film critics and actors from India; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Marija Cvetković The Memorial Collection was visited by the Mayor of Norwich, Erin Hartley, accompanied by the Mayor of Novi Sad, Jovan Dejanović, the member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Barta György, accompanied by academician Pavle Savić, ambassadors of all the countries accredited in Yugoslavia; the monograph on the Memorial Collection was exhibited in Vienna during the Days of the Culture of the SAP Vojvodina in Austria as well as at book fairs in Leipzig, Valetta, Warsaw and Moscow; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Viktorija Kelec Painter Nedeljko Gvozdenović donated a drawing depicting Pavle Beljanski reading a newspaper; the Registry Service control reported that the work in the Memorial Collection was preformed to the highest professional and scholarly standards; the Memorial Collection was visited by the general secretary of Spanish unions Marcelino Camacho Abad with his wife, the French minister of culture, the Czechoslovakian vice-president, Hungarian assistant state minister of finances Vinnai Imre; art history students attended a lecture by Professor Lazar Trifunović, on visual elements in the works of art from Beljanski s Collection and a lecture by Dragan Bulatović on the Memorial Collection from the museological point of view; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Gordana Dobrić Painter Ljubica Cuca Sokić donated the portrait of Bogdan Šuput; in spring and in the autumn; employees in the Memorial Collection organized voluntary events which concentrated on arranging the green areas around the building and the planting of saplings; during his visit to the Agricultural Fair, the Secretary General of the UNCTAD, Gamani Corea visited the Memorial Collection; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Marko Miljanović In honour of the winner of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award, Radoslav Mihailović, actress Maja Dimitrijević performed a monodrama based on the letters of the painter Nadežda Petrović, directed by Miroslav Belović; a monograph by Vera Jovanović entitled Painter Bogdan Šuput: was published From 27 June to 5 September the paintings Jaša Tomić and Ksenija by Nadežda Petrović were on display at the exhibition of her paintings in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich; from 16 October to 3 November, the paintings My Studio II, Harvest, Old Porcelain and Ćira Falcione were exhibited at the exhibition of Konjović s works at the Grand Palais in Paris; the curator of the Munich and Paris exhibitions was Katarina Ambrozić; Predrag Isaković donated 57 photographs from Pavle Beljanski s legacy; A report on the negative experiences regarding the loan of paintings to museums and galleries, accompanied by a request that it should take a stance on preven-

14 tive protection was sent to the Provincial Committee of Education and Culture (the Committee never replied, and no steps were taken); in addition to being visited by many tourist groups from the USSR, the Memorial Collection was visited by painter Zdravko Mandić with the participants of the artists colony in Ečka, actors from the Warsaw theater (guests of the Sterijino Pozorje Festival), a group of school headmasters from Pécs, the Ambassador of Great Britain in Belgrade, the Ambassador of German Democratic Republic in Belgrade, Ralf Hartmann, the wives of the governors of the Italian banks, the Greek Ambassador, Emmanuel S. Spyridakis with his wife, Victoria Vandranaxi; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vesna Pipović Among the visitors were members of the Serbian Physician s Association, federal and republic secretaries for information, members of the Retired Police Officers Club from Zagreb, the Hungarian ambassador Györke Sándor and cultural attaché Varga Imre, the Mayor of Norwich Barbara Stevenson with her husband Leonard and the Mayor of Novi Sad Boško Petrov, the wife of the Czechoslovakian foreign minister Bohuslav Chňoupek and the wife of the ambassador in Belgrade, as well as numerous groups of tourists from the USSR and primary and secondary school students from all over Yugoslavia; the curator-manager of the Memorial Collection, Vera Jovanović, defended her doctoral thesis Collections, Collectors and Donors in Vojvodina at the University of Ljubljana; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was shared by Zoran Rakić and Biljana Golubović from Novi Sad; the painting Old Porcelain was reproduced on the New Year s greeting card of the Milan Konjović Gallery. Nedeljko Gvozdenović, Pavle Beljanski Reading a Newspaper (1945) 1987 The Memorial Collection was visited by Cambodian President Prince Norodom Sihanouk, his wife and members of his delegation, the foreign minister of GDR, Oscar Fischer, the president of the World Basketball Organization, Robert Busnel and officials of the Yugoslav Basketball Association, Borislav Stanković and Nebojša Popović, a group of English surgeons, the director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Udo Marggraf with his wife, Mayor of Krakow Apolinarius Kozuba with his entourage, the Cuban ambassador, a large number of tourist groups, school excursions and others; from 8 18 September, paintings and sculptures created by schoolchildren from Novi Sad in the Memorial Collection were exhibited in the Gallery of the Army Club in Novi Sad, and the best works were awarded 27 prizes; from November, the schoolchildren s works were exhibited in the lobby of the Memorial Collection; a study by Vera Jovanović The Destiny of Art Works: Collections, Collectors and Donors in Vojvodina was published; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Dejan Radovanović. President of Cambodia Norodom Sinahouk (13 October 1987) In addition to authors from previous editions, Sreten Marić and Lazar Trifunović also published their texts in the fourth edition of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection catalogue; the Memorial Collection was visited by a delegation of the Yugoslav Red Cross, the teachers from the military schools in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Ljubljana and Belgrade, workers from the Rade Končar factory from Zagreb, the workers from the National Museum in Šabac, the teachers from police academies, the US Ambassador in Belgrade accompanied by Mayor Boško Petrov, the British ambassador, the Mayor of Dortmund, the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 40 organized tourist groups from the USSR, officers of the River Fleets of countries from the Danube basin organized by the Novi Sad garrison of the Yugoslav People s Army, medical students from European countries who took part in an international student exchange program; the Children s Visual Workshop, which included children from primary and secondary schools as well as students from various faculties, was carried out with the assistance Mihailo Lalić in The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (23 October 1992)

15 of students from the Academy of Pedagogy in Novi Sad, a meeting of pre-school children with poets Danica Lukić, Ismet Bekrić and Dragan Radulović was organized on the occasion of the Zmajeve dečije igre festival; tapestry-artist Nada Adžić created a sketch for a tapestry after Sava Šumanović s painting Winter in Srem for the Atelje 61 in Novi Sad, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vesna Milanović Ivan Karlavaris took 50 slides for a publication entitled Memories and Letters (the book was never published); an effort was launched to prevent further construction works to the buildings of the Insurance Company and the Koprodukt company, the public garage and the four-storey building on the Proleterskih Brigada Square; a request was made to classify the building of the Memorial Collection as a cultural monument; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Provincial Secretary of Internal Affairs, Ratko Sikirić with his associates, the Bulgarian minister of foreign trade, Krsto Popov, a group of professors from Texas, a delegation of Swedish unions, the Dutch minister of education, science and culture; the US Embassy organized a lecture on the work of American museums in the Memorial Collection; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Nebojša Stanković A monograph by Vera Jovanović entitled Sava Sandić: at the Crossroads of Serbian Sculpture was published; the Memorial Collection was visited by museum workers from Timişoara and the Mayor of the City of Norwich; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Gordana Veljanović The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Tatjana Starodubcev The Serbian Ministry of Culture took over the founding rights; the town assembly decided to rename the Proleterskih brigada Square where The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, the Gallery of Matica Srpska and The Gallery of Fine Arts Endowment Collection of Rajko Mamuzić are located, into the Gallery Square; the Memorial Collection was visited by writer Mihajlo Lalić, the Austrian ambassador Walter Sigel, the Deputy mayor of Belgrade Milivoje Lalić with the Deputy mayor of Novi Sad Igor Mirović and pupils from the elementary school in Svilajnac; an event was organized where pupils could meet poet Duško Trifunović and the illustrators of children s books, Desa Kerečki and Milan Milić Jagodinski; on the occasion of the centenary of Pavle Beljanski s birth, Nikola Koka Janković made a sketch for a life-size sculpture of Pavle Beljanski (according to a drawing by Nedeljko Gvozdenović), which was supposed to be placed in front of the building of the Memorial Collection; The Pavle Beljan ski Memorial Collection Award was given to Tatjana Bućin and Čedomir Janičić; the longterm loan transfer of exhibits between The Gallery of Matica Srpska and the Memorial Collection was completed; the Gallery of Matica Srpska received the Skulls and Jug and Mortar by Bogdan Šuput, and the Portrait of Young Bogoboj Atanacković by an unknown artist was returned to the Memorial Collection The Memorial Collection was visited by the Russian Ambassador; the one hundredth anniversary of Pavle Beljanski s birth and the 35 th anniversary of the signing of the Donation Contract were celebrated by publishing a feuilleton by Vera Jovanović entitled Pavle Beljanski s Treasury in the daily newspaper Dnevnik; 2,399 visitors were registered during the year; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Mirjana Maslar.

16 1994 The Memorial Collection was visited by pensioners from Subotica and Belgrade; a monograph by Vera Jovanović entitled Mira Sandić: Faces and Shapes of Childhood and Youth was published in collaboration with the Zmajeve dečije igre festival; three concerts of classical music were held as part of a cooperation with the Isidor Bajić Music School; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Jasmina Stefanović The reconstruction and modernization of the museum depot; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Mayor of Novi Sad, Đuro Bajić; on 3 June, a public painting class was held on the initiative of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, the Gallery of Matica Srpska and The Gallery of Fine Arts The Endowment Collection of Rajko Mamuzić on Gallery Square for primary school pupils as part of the Ecology Week, under the slogan It can be done this way too as a unique protest against the attempt of the town urbanists to turn this area into a dead end by constructing two buildings in front of the aforementioned museums during the Year of culture; the pupils from Novi Sad schools painted flowers and grass and by standing on pedestals and wearing costumes acting as living sculptures; on 24 November, a monument to Nadežda Petrović was unveiled in front of the Memorial Collection building; the casting of the sculpture was aided by numerous donors, among whom were Leposava St. Pavlović and Ana Zumbulović; on 18 November, a presentation of a multimedia CD The Cultural Heritage of Serbs was held in the Memorial Collection in collaboration with the Republic Institute of International Scientific, Educational, Cultural and Technological Cooperation from Belgrade; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Bojan Miljković; on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Award, an exhibition of photographs of the past winners was organized. It Can be Done This Way too at the Gallery Square (3 June 1995) April: the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sava Šumanović was marked by a visual workshop entitled Šumanović and We; the children s works inspired by Šumanović were displayed at the exhibition and the names of the participants were printed on the brochure; October November: an exhibition of drawings donated by Leposava St. Pavlović to the Memorial Collection accompanied by a catalogue by Vera Jovanović in printed and digital form; 842 entries were included in the inventory book of the Documentary fund; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Kosta Vuković. Svetlana Velmar Janković with her husband and Milana Kvas at the exhibition Sava Šumanović From the Drawing towards the Painting (16 June 2001) 1997 The first computer was obtained; the Bibliography of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection by Vida Zeremski was published, whose promotion marked 40 years of the Memorial Collection s publishing activities; Miloš Arsić and Lazar Čurčić spoke at the presentation of the book; a monograph by Vera Jovanović entitled Pavle Paja Radovanović was published in collaboration with the Archive of Vojvodina and the Museum of Vojvodina; on 11 March, a solo concert was held by Ilja Holodkov and Oscar Ritter; June: a children s visual workshop was organized in collaboration with the Zmajeve dečije igre festival; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Zoran Ševkušić; on 24 November, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was awarded the status of cultural monument on the basis of two decisions by the Novi Sad Town Assembly from 24 September 1992; the Association of Art Historians awarded The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection with recognition for its continual work on the protection of cultural treasures and its outstanding contribution to the development of the museological profession and raising the standards in art history. Radoslav Petković opens the exhibition Painter Živko Petrović (27 September 2001)

17 1998 Professor at the Novi Sad Art Academy, Rada Čupić, added the analysis of the works of art from Beljanski s collection to the practical syllabus of the course entitled The Theory of Form and Visual Elements ; October November: an exhibition dedicated to sculptor Mihajlo Tomić; the curator of the display and author of the preface in the catalogue was Nada Stanić; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Finnish ambassador Ilpo Manninen; the first internet presentation of the Memorial Collection was created on the webpage on 30 December: the first curator and director of the Collection, Vera Jovanović, retired. Nada Stanić, who had until then held the post of curator-documentarist, was appointed acting curator- manager; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Valentina Živković; at the awards ceremony, actress Rada Đuričin performed the monodrama entitled The Testament of Desanka Maksimović On 26 March, the art pieces from the permanent display were removed due to NATO bombing; on 2 July, Jasna Jovanov, an art historian from Novi Sad, was appointed as curator-manager; on 10 September, the permanent display of the Memorial Collection was re-opened to public with an exhibition of sculptures by Sreten Stojanović, with Jasna Jovanov as the curator; Vida Ognjenović held a speech at the opening ceremony; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Tijana Palkovljević and Ana Popović; the Memorial Collection was visited by a delegation from the Greek town of Castoria, the manager of the National Gallery from Sofia, the vice-president of the Greek Academy of Sciences; visiting time was extended until 6 p.m., 9 p.m. on Thursdays; the Memorial Collection had 14 full time employees On 14 April, an exhibition of works by Kosta Hakman from the Yugoslav Art Gallery was held (as the first guest exhibition in the Memorial Collection); the works of this painter were presented in Novi Sad for the first time; the exhibition was opened by Slobodan Sanader; on 14 September, an exhibition entitled Landscape at the Turn of the Century was held in the Memorial Collection, as part of the First Biennale of Landscape, according to the idea of Bela Duranci, who spoke at the opening ceremony; on 28 September the exhibition based on the previous year s awarded work by Tijana Palkovljević: Vidosava Kovačević a Painter With a Unique Brush Stroke was opened by Vasilije Tapušković; this exhibition was significant because it focused on the life and work of the artist who was snatched from oblivion by none other than Pavle Beljanski; the beginning of the organization of an exhibition for the award-winning research paper; 24 February: painter Leposava St. Pavlović donated an album with 139 drawings by different artists; 22 December: an exhibition of pupils works from the Memorial Collection s Visual Workshop was opened; the Memorial Collection was visited by the Polish ambassador Slawomir Dabrowa, the wife of the Indian ambassador, a group of professors from European countries, guests of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade; Pavle Beljanski was pronounced one of the 500 most significant Serbs of the 20 th Century; the library exchange of museum editions was re-established; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Jelena Perać From 6 March to 14 June, the exhibition of paintings, drawings and archive materials about the painter Bogdan Šuput was realized, with Jasna Jovanov and Milana Kvas as curators; the bibliographical part of the display has since been designed by Dragana Bošković; at the opening ceremony, the novel Still Life with a Clock by Laslo Blašković, inspired by the life and work of Bogdan Šuput, was presented to the public; the following participants spoke about Bogdan Šuput and the novel: Slobodan Sanader, Borislav Novaković, Teofil Pančić and Gojko Božović; from 7 14 April a master course of

18 violin was held under the guidance of professor Stefan Kamilarov from the University of Musical and Stage Art in Vienna; on 26 April, the first exhibition of works by students of the Art Academy, created in the classes of professor Rada Čupić as part of the Visual Elements course was held; these exhibitions have since then been regularly organized (the curator of the first exhibition was Milana Kvas, the curator of the exhibitions from 2002 to 2006 was Milica Orlović, and in 2007, Aleksandra Nećakov); the beginning of cooperation with designer Aleksandra Savić; on 14 June, a presentation by Svetlana Velmar Janković opened the exhibition entitled Sava Šumanović From the Drawing Towards the Painting with Milana Kvas as the curator, which was later exhibited in the Sava Šumanović Gallery in Šid; on 27 September, Radoslav Petković opened the exhibition entitled Painter Živko Petrović, based on the Award-winning graduation thesis by Jelena Perać from 2000; in December, the exhibition was put on display in Spirta s House in Zemun, on the occasion of the 250 th anniversary of the Zemun Town hall; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Gorana Jančić; on 14 December, an exhibition of the Children s Visual Workshop was organized, which has been led by Milica Orlović since 2001; the Memorial Collection was visited by the provincial Minister of education and culture, Bunyik Zoltán, the Finnish and Dutch ambassadors, the Austrian consul, a delegation of sport workers from Portugal, cultural workers from Hungary; the library fund was expanded to 524 titles. Ranko Radović, Jasna Jovanov and Valentina Brdar at the opening of the exhibition From Paris to Brašovan (10 September 2003) 2002 On 29 January, Ljubica Cuca Sokić donated 15 drawings to the Memorial Collection; on 4 February, the founding rights to The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection were returned to the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina when a law was adopted determining certain jurisdictions of the AP of Vojvodina; on 22 August, the Executive Council of the APV appointed Jasna Jovanov as curator-manager of the Memorial Collection for a four-year term at the recommendation of the Executive Board of the Memorial Collection; on 19 September, the graduation thesis Painting of the Serbian Intimist Circle by Gorana Jančić, which won the Award in 2001, was publicised through an exhibition and a catalogue; Laslo Blašković spoke at the opening ceremony; a smallscale exhibition An Homage to Bogdan Šuput, by Jasna Jovanov as part of the Novi Sad For All Seasons exhibition displayed at the VANU Gallery and An Homage to Milica Zorić by Dragana Bošković were organized; the Memorial Collection was visited by Prince Vladimir Karađorđević, the guest of the Novi Sad Rotary Club, and the Swedish ambassador; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was closed to the general public from August, due to the damage on the exhibited artworks; the reconstruction of the exhibiting area of the Pavle Beljanski Memorial began; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Ivan Drpić. The Pavle Beljanski Memorial (2003) On 6 February, the exhibition of paintings by Marko Čelebonović, with Ivana Simeonović Ćelić, who opened the exhibition, and Jasna Jovanov as curators, marked the centenary of the artist s birth; for outstanding results in organizing museum activities and her participation in the artistic life of Novi Sad, Jasna Jovanov was awarded the The Spark of Culture Prize from the Vojvodina Institute of Culture; on 16 April, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and archive materials, accompanied by a speech by Miro Vuksanović, marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of painter Nedeljko Gvozdenović (curator Jasna Jovanov); on the 10 June, the exhibition entitled From Paris to Brašovan; the Architecture of Public Buildings in Novi Sad Between Two World Wars, by Valentina Brdar, was opened by a speech delivered by Ranko Radović; on 19 June, after the premises were reconstructed and the exhibits restored (paintings, frames, furniture, books, tapestries), the Pavle Beljanski Memorial was formally opened to public, marking the anniversary of Pavle Beljanski s birthday; it was decided to celebrate this date in the future with a special exhibition or program; Pavle Beljanski s diplomatic uniform was included in the revised permanent display of the Pavle Pavle Beljanski s family: Milan Isaković with his wife Ivana Stanković Isaković (in the middle), Aleksandar Džordeski with his wife Vesna (second from the left) and Aleksandra Stanić (16 June 2005)

19 Beljanski Memorial for the first time; on 17 August, Vukašin Mišković held a classical guitar concert; the exhibition of entries for the competition for the restructuring of the Futoška Market in Novi Sad (from September) and the exhibition of entries for the competition for the restructuring of the tree-nursery for the Municipal Green-Area Service (from November) were set up together with the Novi Sad Association of Architects; on 25 September, the exhibition Pavle Beljanski s Collection Here and Abroad, which was conceived by the curator Milica Orlović, was opened by Byzantologist Radivoj Radić; the green belt around the building was restored; the Memorial Collection was visited by Prof. Nevenka Tadić, with familly, a delegation of French architects, Greek students; October December: the children s workshop and an exhibition entitled Mosaics in The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, with a catalogue, which was printed for this event for the first time; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Vladimir Simić; on 11 December, Živojin Kuzmanović held a classical guitar concert; on 19 December, the painting Young Diplomat was exhibited at the exhibition of artworks by Marino Tartaglia, which was accompanied by a monograph, at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb; the exhibition was later put on in Split February: photographer Dušan Milijić photographed the Art Fund of the Memorial Collection as part of the preparations for the new edition of the monograph; on 26 th February a concert of the musical ensemble Serboplov re-opened the permanent display, following a three-month pause due to the reconstruction of electrical wiring and painting the walls; the fire-extinguishing system was replaced; the museological processing of the art collection from the Documentary Fund began with the catalogue of the collection of graphics; from 18 March to 25 April, a retrospective exhibition of works by Miloš Golubović, with Žana Gvozdenović as the curator, was taken on loan from the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art; from 24 June to 31 July, the first exhibition of Petar Lubarda s paintings in Novi Sad, with Milana Kvas as the curator, was opened by the presentation of the book of reviews by Zoran Markuš entitled Passion and Suspicion, with the participation of Ivana Simeonović Ćelić, Ljiljana Ćinkul and Jasna Jovanov; on 7 September: Jasna Jovanov, the curator-manager of the Memorial Collection defended her doctoral thesis entitled The Cultural and Historical Framework of Stevan Aleksić s Painting at the University of Novi Sad; on 1 October, Raša Popov opened the exhibition entitled Children s Portraits in Serbian 19 th Century Painting, which was organized according to the award-winning project by Vladimir Simić; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Milan Prosen; on 18 November, the exhibition entitled Children s Portraits in the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (with Jasna Jovanov and Milana Kvas as curators) was opened by Dušan Đurđev; on 17 December, the exhibition of the visual workshop A Tale in Comic Strips was opened with an accompanying catalogue; beginning of collaboration with designer Vladimir Svorcan; on the occasion of the preparation of the exhibition about the art collector Richard LeDoux, the former owner of the painting La Grande Iza by Vlaho Bukovac, cooperation with the Walker Art Gallery from Liverpool was established; on 23 December, the end of the year was celebrated by the concert performance of the piano piece Vojvodinian Impressions by Aleksandar Dujin The anniversary of the death of painter Nadežda Petrović was marked by a small exhibition of her works and the printing of a commemorative poster; from 24 March to 8 May, an exhibition entitled Drawings and Graphic Art in the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was set up, the authors of the catalogue were Jasna Jovanov and Milana Kvas, the curator of the exhibition was Marta Feher; the exhibition was displayed in Pančevo and in Zrenjanin; on 17 May, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was presented at the Kolarac University in Belgrade; on 18 May, the Memorial Collection received

20 the prize of the Serbian Museum Association Mihajlo Valtrović for its extraordinary achievements in 2004, team work and successful management; on 19 June, on the occasion marking the anniversary of Pavle Beljanski s birth, the exhibition entitled Diplomacy and Art, by the curator Milica Orlović, was opened by professor Čedomir Vasić; the Memorial Collection was closed in November due to the reconstruction of the roof; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Katarina Mitrović; the visual workshop entitled Collage and a Few Other Things, with its accompanying catalogue, resulted in an exhibition the following year (from 17 February to 12 March); from 1 December 2005 to 18 th January 2006, an exhibition of illustrations and drawings by Leposava Bela St. Pavlović entitled To All Generations (the preface in the catalogue was written by Ljubica Miljković; the curator of the exhibition was Marta Feher) took place; a digitalized version of the Memorial Collection catalogue was completed; during the year, the Musical Youth of Novi Sad held several concerts in the acoustic surroundings of the exhibiting area of the Memorial Collection: the duo Uniko (17 February), the most successful students of the piano department of the Isidor Bajić School of Music (17 March), a concert from the Youth Podium cycle (26 May) and the string quartet of students of the Novi Sad Art Academy (23 June). Zoran Hamović and Svetislav Jovanov at the grand opening of the Pavle Beljanski Memorial (19 June 2003) 2006 From 22 January to 13 February, a small exhibition was held marking the 110 th anniversary of the birth of Sava Šumanović; on 26 April, an exhibition of thirty Mexican female artists entitled A Homage to Frida Kahlo was opened in the Memorial Collection, as conceived by Gladys Villegas Morales, who spoke at the opening; the Memorial Collection was the co-publisher of the monograph about sculptor Risto Stijović; Jasna Jovanov was the redactor of Katarina Ambrozić s text; on 15 June, a piano concert by Miroslav Popović was held, organized by the Novi Sad Art Academy; 22 June, the exhibition of paintings by Živko Stojsavljević, accompanied by a monograph (author Konstantin Novaković), was opened by Radule Bošković; 21 September: the first monograph exhibition of sculptures by Risto Stijović in Novi Sad (with Jasna Jovanov as the chief curator, the curator of the exhibition was Marta Feher) was opened by Vida Ognjenović with the presentation of Katarina Ambrozić s monograph; The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award was given to Igor Borozan; on 23 November, the exhibition Milan Konjović: the Fourth Decade (Jasna Jovanov was the chief curator of the exhibition and the author of the catalogue, the curator of the exhibition was Marta Feher) was opened by writer Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar and the manager of the Milan Konjović Gallery in Sombor, Irma Lang; from 18 December 2006 to 20 January 2007, the exhibition of Milan Konjović was on display in Zrenjanin; Jasna Jovanov, Irma Lang and the Mayor of Zrenjanin, Goran Knežević spoke at the opening ceremony; from 16 December 2006 to 20 January 2007: an exhibition of the Visual Arts Workshop entitled A Dot by the Cat, the curator was Aleksandra Nećakov; the preparations for the new monograph of the Memorial Collection were intensified; Veljko Damjanović was hired to do the design of the monograph; the catalogue of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Art as Life in English was published; the anti-theft and the system of video surveillance were introduced. Čedomir Vasić addressing the audience at the opening of the exhibition Diplomacy and Art (16 June 2005) Vida Ognjenović opening the exhibition Risto Stijović (21 September 2006) On 12 January, following the proposal by the Managing Board of the Memorial Collection, the Executive Council of the APV passed the decision by which Jasna Jovanov, art historian was nominated again for the position of curator manager; from 30 January 22 February the exhibition Milan Konjović: the Fourth Decade was presented in the National Museum in Šabac and later on in the Milan Konjović Gallery in Sombor (12 April 17 June) Jasna Jovanov made the opening remarks; at the traditional annual show of calendars, held on 1 February, the small calendar/mat printed as an element of the promotional material for the exhibition of Children s Visual Art Workshop (design: Tamara Popović) won the first prize in the category of small cal-

21 endars; the staff of the Memorial Collection numbers sixteen permanent employees and three volunteers; 1 25 April, the exhibition Drawings and Prints from The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was presented in Gornji Milanovac; the opening remarks were delivered by Jasna Jovanov; on 28 April, at the International Tourist Fair (Belgrade, April) The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection received the Flower of Tourism recognition awarded by the Tourist Organization of Serbia; the recognition was received for the activities in 2006 in the category Cultural Heritage as Tourist Attraction; a special exhibition Museum Night in Paris: Thierry Nectoux was organized for the 19 May first Museum Night in Novi Sad; there were 4,200 visitors and the Memorial Collection was the second most frequented of the seventeen locations in the city; 5 July 16 September the exhibition and catalogue Visual Arts Collection: from a Badge to a Monumental Canvas prepared by Marta Feher concluded the project of processing and presentation of the Documentary Fund art collection, begun in 2004 by the exhibition and catalogue Drawings and Prints from The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, opened by sculptor Nikola Milunović; on 21 September, the exhibition Danica Jovanović: Passionately in Love with Painting (chief curator of the exhibition and author of the catalogue Jasna Jovanov, curator Marta Feher) was opened by Vladislava Gordić Petković, literary theorist; on 3 October 2007 the Executive Council of the APV gave its consent for the implementation of the new Statute of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection; with the new regulations, the museum was organized in two departments: the Museological Department and the General Affairs Department; The Memorial Collection annual prize was awarded to Dragana Garić; the monograph study on Danica Jovanović, painter, written by Jasna Jovanov, was presented on 22 November by Milanka Todić, Vladislava Gordić Petković and Živomir Živković, editor in chief of the publishing house TOPY from Belgrade; the exhibition of the Visual Arts Workshop Petar Lubarda as Seen by Children: from Realism towards Abstraction, conceived by Aleksandra Nećakov and held from 22 December 2007 to 3 February 2008, was opened by Tijana Palkovljević, Assistant Manager of the Gallery of Matica Srpska; Regional Secretary for Education and Culture, Jeges Zoltán, and Gyarmati Zoltán, Regional Secretary for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development visited the Memorial Collection; among other visitors were art history students from Zagreb, participants in the International Symposium Restoration of the Cultural and Architectural Heritage Aspects, Examples, Lessons, then participants in the International Artists Colony Terra from Kikinda, Vera Dorner, sister of Petar Lubarda, with her daughter Gina Lazar and nephew Đuro Lubarda; new doors were installed at the main entrance and on the courtyard side of the building, also new runners were placed in the attic, and the glass plates in the ceiling over the exhibition space were replaced by new, modern lexan plates; the catalogue of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection was published in the Serbian language under the title The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection a Life Devoted to Art From 8 to 27 February the exhibition Danica Jovanović: Passionately in Love with Painting was held in the Vojnović House, the Cultural Centre of Inđija, and from 18 to 28 March in the Cultural Centre Vuk Karadžić in Loznica, with a presentation of the monograph study on this artist; Olivera Stojadinović prepared a special computer font for The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection logo after the original design by Nebojša Mitrić, sculptor; from 29 February to 2 March the Memorial Collection hosted the Second Classical Guitar Festival; on 17 March the monograph study Danica Jovanović: Passionately in Love with Painting was presented in the City Library of Belgrade; the presenters were Simona Čupić, Docent at the Art History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Tijana Palkovljević and Živomir Živković; on 20 March the Memorial Collection hosted the recital cycle From Classical Music to Chansons with opera singers Sanela Mitrović and Jaroslava Benka Vlček, with accompaniment of Tamara Jovićević and Miroslav Ivančević; on 27 March The Pavle

22 Beljanski Memorial Collection received the Spark of Culture award from the Cultural Institute of Vojvodina for its gallery activities in 2007; the new catalogue of the Memorial Collection in the Serbian language was presented on 9 May with the following presenters: Saša Brajović, Docent at the Art History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Teofil Pančić, journalist and Jasna Jovanov; the exhibition Awakening of Emotions: Photographs by Stefan Lupino, organized on 19 May for the Museum Night was seen by 6000 visitors; on 19 May the National Committee of ICOM for Serbia awarded Jasna Jovanov with the Curator of the Year recognition for the exhibition Danica Jovanović: Passionately in Love with Painting; on 6 June Jasna Jovanov gave a lecture on The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in the City Library of Belgrade, with video presentation of the art collection; the system of video surveillance and fire protection was extended to the outer parts of the building; from 19 June to 27 July the exhibition Peđa Milosavljević Mythologies (curator of the show and author of the catalogue, Zdravko Vučinić, curator of the exhibition Milica Orlović Čobanov) was organized in cooperation with the Commercial Gallery Belgrade ; the exhibition was opened by Dragan Velikić, writer; from 28 June to 5 July, the exhibition Museum Night in Paris: Thierry Nectoux was opened by Milana Kvas in Lazarevac, as an event of the Days of French Serbian Friendship ; the Memorial Collection now has a staff of eighteen employees; from 12 September to 5 October the Memorial Collection hosted the exhibition Movement in Sculpture/Sculpture in Movement as one of the events of the Museum on the Move project of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (curator was Rajka Bošković, of the exhibition Marta Đarmati); in cooperation with the Gallery of Matica Srpska, which had taken over the exhibition The City: Chronicles of Urban Space from the same project of the Museum of Contemporary Art, there was a joint opening of the shows with the following participants: Jasna Jovanov, Branka Kulić (Manager of the Gallery of Matica Srpska) and Branislava Anđelković Dimitrijević (Manager of the Museum of Contemporary Art); a catalogue was published on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award, and the prize for 2008 was awarded to Miodrag Danilović; the following personalities visited the Memorial Collection: Krinka Vidaković Petrov and Đina Lazar (Petar Lubarda Fund), professors and students of the Art and Conservation Academy of the Serbian Orthodox Church from Belgrade, then, French and German Rotarians with guests, Hose Antonio Fernando Esquivel Martinez (Adviser to the Mexican Consul for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), British painter Barry Watkins, Milorad Đurić (Regional Secretary of the newly established Secretariat for Culture), Dr. Toshino Iguchi, Professor of Art History at the Sayatama University in Japan. Thierry Nectoux, Museum night in The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (19 May 2007) Vladislava Gordić Petković opening the exhibition of painter Danica Jovanović (20 September 2007) 489 José Antonio Fernando Esquivel Martínez in the garden of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (19 June 2008) Photographs on the Introductory Pages of the Chapters [468/469] 1. Pavle Beljanski, graduation photo (Belgrade, 3 June 1910) 2. Pavle Beljanski welcoming the first Turkish Ambassador Sadi Kavur at Belgrade airport. 3. Eva Sámano de López Mateos, Jovanka Broz and Vera Jovanović (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, 31 March 1963) 4. Radomir Radujkov, Marica Šuput, Leposava Janković and Vojislav Korać, The presentation of The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award (24 November 1968) 5. Ivan Đorđević and Vesna Jovanović Todorović, the winner of the Award (2 December 1969) 6. Prince Charles in The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection (27 October 1978) 7. Prince Vladimir Karađorđević and Jasna Jovanov (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, 22 October 2002)