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Paja Jovanović

1859 - 1957

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Pavle "Paja" Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле "Паја" Јовановић; IPA: [pâʋlɛ pǎːja jɔʋǎːnɔʋit͡ɕ]; 16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957) was a Serbian realist painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: The Wounded Montenegrin (1882), Decorating of the Bride (1886), The Takovo Uprising (1894), Migration of the Serbs (1896) and The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex (1900). As one of the best European painters of oriental scenes, Paja at the end of the 19th century turned to painting historical events of Serbian history. Paja was also the premier portraitist of Europe after 1905. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paja Jovanović has received more than 178,092 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paja Jovanović is the 1,128th most popular painter (down from 1,116th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Serbia (down from 145th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paja Jovanović ranks 1,128 out of 1,421Before him are Simon Marmion, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Albert Eckhout, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Achilles Painter, and Laurits Tuxen. After him are Amalia Lindegren, Orlan, Alexey Venetsianov, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Charles de La Fosse, and Henri Regnault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Paja Jovanović ranks 75Before him are Otto Hölder, Kostis Palamas, Karl Muck, Otto Warburg, Johan Jensen, and Aurel Stodola. After him are Kosta Khetagurov, Samuel Alexander, Maurice Paléologue, Constantine VI of Constantinople, Louis Majorelle, and Nikolay Gamaleya. Among people deceased in 1957, Paja Jovanović ranks 111Before him are Hasui Kawase, Valery Larbaud, Claude Farrère, Josephine Hull, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, and Marija Jurić Zagorka. After him are Frank País, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Harald Sverdrup, Ralph Benatzky, Kiyoshi Shiga, and James Whale.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Paja Jovanović ranks 151 out of 564Before him are Milorad Pavić (1921), Dragan Pantelić (1951), Đuro Daničić (1825), Svetislav Pešić (1949), Petar of Serbia (870), and Bora Kostić (1930). After him are Stojan Protić (1857), Sava II (1199), Ivan Bek (1909), Petar Živković (1879), Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728), and Nikola Karabatić (1984).

Among PAINTERS In Serbia

Among painters born in Serbia, Paja Jovanović ranks 2Before him are Nadežda Petrović (1873). After him are Uroš Predić (1857), Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909), Mór Than (1828), and Olja Ivanjicki (1931).