{"id":18074,"date":"2024-10-18T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=18074"},"modified":"2024-10-18T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:46:54","slug":"akademie-der-bildenden-kunste","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/en\/exhibition\/arhitekt-viktor-kovacic-otac-hrvatske-moderne-arhitekture\/akademie-der-bildenden-kunste\/","title":{"rendered":"Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107 went to Vienna during October 1896. There he enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste, where he attended a special school with the famous Viennese architect Otto Wagner. With Wagner’s school, new and much wider perspectives opened before his eyes, completely different from the narrow provincial environment he had known until then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, school drawing, Ministry of culture and media Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At the very beginning of his education, Kova\u010di\u0107’s first famous Viennese project “Ein Versammlungsort mit Aussicht auf der H\u00f6he eines Berges” was created – a competition work for a scholarship for young artists, Hungarian citizens, who studied at the Viennese Academy. For this work, the young Kova\u010di\u0107 was awarded a three-year scholarship in the amount of 1,260 HUF. On March 7, 1897, Zagreb’s Agramer Zeitung also reported on Kova\u010di\u0107’s success in Vienna, and in 1901, his work was presented in the Vienna magazine Architektonische Monatshefte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, Ein Versammlungsort mit aussicht auf der H\u00f6he eines Berges (Viewpoint on the Hill), Architektonische Minatshefte, VII, 3, Leipzig\/Vienna, 1901.<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kova\u010di\u0107’s school work entitled “Entwurf f\u00fcr eine Hotel \u2013 Anlage an der Wienzeile” was presented in 1898 at the Academy’s annual exhibition in the category of works by second-year students and in the supplement of the famous Viennese magazine Der Architekt, where the Viennese critic Ludwig Abels wrote a very positive review of it . On July 31, 1898, the architect Adolf Loos commented on this work of Kova\u010di\u0107 in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse. A few years later, Kova\u010di\u0107 and Loos became close friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, Entwurf f\u00fcr eine Hotel \u2013 Anlage an der Wienzeile (Hotel Project in Wienzeile Street), Der Architekt – Suplemente, 4, Vienna, 1898.<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to Kova\u010di\u0107’s well-known works from the Vienna Academy, his legacy also includes several drawings that can undoubtedly be connected to his stay in Vienna. These are several exceptional drawings in ink and colored pencil with motifs of ancient temples and palaces, in which Kova\u010di\u0107 fascinates us not only with the richness of fantasy, but also with his drawing virtuosity. In the context of Croatian fine art from the beginning of the 20th century, these works by Kova\u010di\u0107 are among the best drawings of that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, school drawings, Ministry of culture and media Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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    Architect Edo \u0160en about Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107’s drawings: “Each drawing, no matter how sketchy it is, is clear and characteristic. Many of his drawings and sketches are a work of art in themselves. And if they are made in a completely original manner, they can be a valuable contribution to our graphic art. “<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, school drawing, Ministry of culture and media Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Diploma thesis: Project of the imperial summer house Orianda, year 1899 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, Graduation Thesis: Entwurf f\u00fcr das Schloss Orianda (Project of Orianda Castle), Vienna, 1899, Ministry of culture and media Republic of Croatia<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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    Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107 finished his education with Wagner in 1899. His final study project at the Academy is the project of the imperial summer residence Orianda on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. Wagner evaluated Kova\u010di\u0107’s work as solid, on the basis of which the rectorate of the Academy awarded him the so-called diploma that year. Austritts-Zeugnis, which “gives him the usual right to use the title of architect in Austria, where architects are considered free artists”. Kova\u010di\u0107 was also awarded the Academy’s annual “Rome Award” for the imperial summer residence project. In the end, the project was presented in the annual supplement of the works of the Wagner school in Der Architekt magazine. Traditionally, the introductory commentary on the works was written by Ludwig Abels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Viktor Kova\u010di\u0107, Graduation thesis: Entwurf f\u00fcr das Schloss Orianda (Project of Orianda Castle), Der Architekt \u2013 Suplemente, 5, Vienna, 1899<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Kova\u010di\u0107’s life in Vienna was not easy. Due to irregular scholarship payments and a lack of other sources of funding, he was forced to go to Zagreb during the school holidays, where he worked as an associate from 1897 with his patron Kuna Waidmann. Even then, Kova\u010di\u0107 was very actively involved in the domestic art scene. In June 1897, he participated in the founding of the Society of Croatian Artists in Zagreb. The society was founded by a group of artists led by the painter Vlaho Bukovac after they separated from the Society of Arts due to numerous disagreements. The General Assembly of the new company was held on June 27, 1897. Bukovac was elected as its president, sculptor Robert Frange\u0161 Mihanovi\u0107 as vice president, sculptor Rudolf Valdec as secretary, while Kova\u010di\u0107 was elected among the members of the executive board. The central event is the first Croatian modern exhibition of the 1st Croatian salon. The exhibition was opened on December 15, 1898 in the Art Pavilion. Kova\u010di\u0107 was also present at the exhibition, who created a frame for Bukovec’s portrait of Baron Ljudevit Vraniczany for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Art pavilion, postcard from the beginning of the 20th century<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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