Exhibition “The Lighthouse of the East Belgrade – in the works of European artists”

December 2019 – February 2020
Sava Promenade, Kalemegdan park

on 27 panels Belgrade was presented as it was experienced by 19th century European artists.

“Nineteenth-century Belgrade is a significant topic of European literature. News about the city of glorious history, gradually liberating itself from Oriental shells, was read in Warsaw, Paris, Prague, London, Leipzig … The pages about Belgrade were full of sympathy for this, at the time, eastern city, and in descriptions of particular places and sights, it seems like a certain nostalgia for what is already beginning to fade away. Roman Zmorski, Louis Leger, Zozef Renak, Jan Neruda, Gustav Rasch, Angelo de Gubernatis, Herbert Vivien, Felix Kanic, explored all corners of Belgrade, observed, compared to life in their surroundings, inquired, recorded … Many 19th-century European artists traveled to Serbia on the Danube and painted and described its landscapes and inhabitants. Belgrade was the main stop on their way to Constantinople.

According to their drawings, the prospects of the White City were printed in the most important European graphic and publishing centers of the 19th century (Vienna, London, Berlin, Pest, Leipzig, Trieste, Hildburghausen …)