Dragutin Đorđević
Serbian architect (1866–1933)
Dragutin Đorđević (Loznica, Serbia, August 22, 1866 – Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, April 9, 1933) was a Serbian architect and university professor who worked during the last decade of the Belle Époque and the interwar period. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences from February 16, 1920.
His work is characteristic of the academic art and eclectic styles in Serbia.
Biography
Karlsruhe and Berlin-trained Đorđević was a well-established professor from the first generation of Belgrade architecture faculty who received a commission for the Belgrade University Library based on his pre-World War I reputation. His collaborator on the 1919–1926 project was architect Nikola Nestorović, also Karlsruhe and Berlin-trained.
Even before he embarked on Belgrade University Library, he and his colleague Andra Stevanović both received a commission in 1912 to design the plans for the building of the Serbian Royal Academy in Kneza Mihaila Street no. 35. The project was completed in 1924. Today the monumental building of the highest scientific institution in the country is one of the most representative buildings in the spirit of Secession reform and French decorativism of Belgrade architecture.
Other equally lucrative commissions followed suit from the Ministry of Construction and Public Works while he was employed as a professor of architecture at his alma mater -- the University of Belgrade.
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