{"id":19506,"date":"2023-04-20T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/?page_id=19506"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:09:07","slug":"legat-sekulic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/legat-sekulic\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection of icons Sekuli\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Collection of icons Sekuli\u0107\u00a0 was founded by Milan and his wife Pava Sekuli\u0107, who collected a valuable collection of icons and other artworks. The entire art collection was bequeathed to the Museum of the City of Belgrade. We visited their legacy at Uzun Mirkova Street, No. 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milan Sekuli\u0107 (Sremska Mitrovica, 1895 \u2013 1970, Belgrade) was an architect and entrepreneur, counted among the most significant architects of the interwar period. After completing high school in Novi Sad in 1913, he studied at the Technical Faculty's Construction Department in Budapest, where he earned his architect's diploma in 1919. He lived in Belgrade from 1921 and worked in the private construction company \"Pionir.\" There, he designed a small number of buildings, most notably the old building of the newspaper house \"Politika\" from 1921.<\/p>\n

In the same year, together with architect D. Bra\u0161ovan, he founded the design bureau \"Arhitekt,\" which operated until 1924. They jointly designed and built the buildings of the Discount Bank in Nu\u0161i\u0107eva Street and Ruskog cara in Knez Mihailova, as well as the palace of the Baji\u0107 family at Uzun Mirkova 5, where he also lived. After leaving \"Arhitekt,\" he established a private company under his own name, active until 1927. Sekuli\u0107 mainly focused on the construction of industrial facilities and silos, raising over 200 structures in Belgrade, Novi Sad, \u0160abac, Smederevska Palanka, Smederevo, Bijeljina, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

In May 1947, his construction company was nationalized, and he was appointed the director of the newly established construction company \"Rad.\" In 1948, communist authorities arrested and imprisoned him for alleged economic sabotage. He served time until 1951 when he was pardoned. In 1954, he returned to the position of the director of \"Rad.\" He continued his career at the Institute in Vin\u010da from 1956.<\/p>\n

As a significant collector, Milan Sekuli\u0107, together with his wife Pava, bequeathed the entire art collection to Belgrade in 1970.<\/p>\n

Today, this legacy houses one of the most valuable collections of icons in Serbia and the Balkans. In addition to 165 icons of Russian, Serbian, and Italo-Cretan origin, the legacy includes artworks from the 18th to the 20th century by painters such as Arsa Teodorovi\u0107, Pavel \u0110urkovi\u0107, Stevan Aleksi\u0107, Franc Anton Maulber\u010d, Jovan Bijeli\u0107, Ignjat Job, Marko \u010celebonovi\u0107, and others.<\/p>\n

In addition to paintings, the legacy includes original period furniture, archaeological objects, and rare books from the 18th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n

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Soba u legatu Sekuli\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The collection includes 165 icons from the 15th to the 20th century, originating from the entire Balkan region, Russia, Greece, and Italy. A significant number of icons that appeared on the market in Serbia during the interwar period were a result of a wave of Russian immigrants who migrated to Belgrade after the Russian Revolution. It was during this time that Milan Sekuli\u0107 began acquiring Russian, Serbian, and Italo-Cretan icons.<\/p>\n

A particular highlight in the Sekuli\u0107 Icon Collection is the Russian room furnished in a traditional Russian style. Above the massive dining table with benches hangs a copper chandelier designed by Milan's friend and architect Dragi\u0161a Bra\u0161ovan. The Russian room predominantly features Russian icons created from the 18th to the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ruska soba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the five-room apartment, the majority of the furniture has been preserved, although the bedroom has undergone partial changes. According to the painter Miodrag B. Proti\u0107, the painting \"Pijana la\u0111a\" (Drunken Boat) by Sava \u0160umanovi\u0107 from 1927 was located in the bedroom. Thanks to his efforts, this painting became part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition to this painting, architect Sekuli\u0107 sold to the Museum of Contemporary Art the painting \"Bosnian Landscape\" by Jovan Bijeli\u0107 and one painting by Ignjat Job. For these paintings, in addition to monetary compensation, the Sekuli\u0107 family received a two-room apartment, which they used to accommodate their tenants who had moved into their apartment after World War II.<\/p>\n

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PALACE BAJIC<\/h3>\n
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Palata Baji\u0107, arh. Milan Sekuli\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Collection of icons Sekuli\u0107 is housed in the interior of a spacious apartment on the first floor of Baji\u0107 Palace, where the Sekuli\u0107 couple once resided.<\/p>\n

Milan Sekuli\u0107 himself designed Baji\u0107 Palace upon his return from studying architecture in Budapest, in collaboration with his godfather and friend, the renowned architect Dragi\u0161a Bra\u0161ovan, in the style of academic architecture.<\/p>\n

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ULazni hodnik u Palati Baji\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Written by Sofija Jovanovi\u0107<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Collection of icons Sekuli\u0107\u00a0 was founded by Milan and his wife Pava Sekuli\u0107, who collected a valuable collection of icons and other artworks. The entire art collection was bequeathed to the Museum of the City of Belgrade. We visited their legacy at Uzun Mirkova Street, No. 5. Milan Sekuli\u0107 (Sremska Mitrovica, 1895 \u2013 1970,… Read More »Collection of icons Sekuli\u0107<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19506"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29086,"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19506\/revisions\/29086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beotura.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}