Jovan Ilkić

Jovan Ilkić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Илкић; Zemun, Austria-Hungary, 25 March 1857 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 22 January 1917http://www.srpskilegat.rs/umro-je-arhitekta-jovan-ilkic/?pismo=lat) was a renowned Serbian architect who significantly influenced the development of architecture in Serbia in the last quarter of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century respectfully. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jovan Ilkić was considered a leading Serbian architect along with Konstantin Jovanovićhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/Capital_Cities_in_the_Aftermath_of_Empir/M_aMAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jovan+Ilki%C4%87&pg=PA50&printsec=frontcover
==Biography==
He was born into a wealthy family of merchants and traders in Zemun, where he finished primary school and lower grammar school. He finished high school in Vienna, and then enrolled in the study of architecture with Theophil Hansen at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna. He graduated in 1883. Until August of the same year, he was employed by the Hansen Bureau for the Construction of the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna and then came to Serbia at the invitation of the king (Milan Obrenović) to complete the work on the arrangement Stari dvor. Upon his arrival in Serbia, he was employed by the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure (Serbia)https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Urban_Architectures_in_Interwar_Yugoslav/aaPSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Jovan+Ilki%C4%87%22&pg=PT60&printsec=frontcover, where he worked as a contract engineer from 1883 to 1899 and as a regular engineer from 1900 to 1910. He held the title of court architect when he designed the plans for the Diocesan Home of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Nišhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Society_of_Architectural/ad5UAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Jovan+Ilki%C4%87&dq=Jovan+Ilki%C4%87&printsec=frontcover. He went to Hungary in 1910 and during 1911 and 1912. He worked on the construction of the Pelman factory complex in Budapest. He returned to Belgrade in 1912. As an extremely prolific builder, he managed to realize about a hundred major projects in his lifetime.
==Works==
He designed many important buildings in Belgrade:
* In 1885 he designed the Krsmanović House, Terazije at 31 Terazije street in Belgrade,
* house Milan Piroćanac in Francuska 7 (around 1885),
* the house of Milorad Pavlović in Kralja Petra 13-15 (around 1890),
* Student's Officers Club at Kralja Milana 48 (1895), with architect Milorad Ruvidić,
* Home Society of Saint Sava at the address Cara Dušana 13 (1889/1890),
* National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (1902—1936)https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Routledge_History_Handbook_of_Centra/5OjeDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jovan+Ilki%C4%87&pg=PT37&printsec=frontcover,
* insurance company building - then known as Rossija - (today hotel Moskva) (1906) in collaboration with Russian émigrée architects originally from Saint Petersburg, then living and working in Belgrade.
Ilkić's significant works in Serbia include:
* Church of the Holy Trinity in Paraćin in (1894)https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Entangled_Histories_of_the_Balkans_Volum/R3cEDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jovan+Ilki%C4%87&pg=PA405&printsec=frontcover,
* the Municipal Court Building in Valjevo at the beginning of the 20th century,
* bell tower and narthex of the old church of St. Duha in Kragujevac (1907) and others.
Jovan Ilkić was married to Paulina-Paula Kneper of Vienna. They had five children: sons Pavle and Đorđe-Đuro and daughters Angelina, Jelisaveta-Ela, and Jovanka. Their son Pavle Ilkićhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Cultural_Treasury_of_Serbia/rHYMAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Jovan+Ilki%C4%87%22&dq=%22Jovan+Ilki%C4%87%22&printsec=frontcoverwas also an architect and is credited for completing the House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia which was originally started according to his father's project .
==See more==
* House of Petar Velimirović in Belgrade
* House of architect Jovan Ilkić in Belgradehttps://beogradskonasledje.rs/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jovan-ilkic.pdfhttps://beogradskonasledje.rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Nasledje14/5-aleksandar-bozovic.pdf
* Krsmanović House, Terazije
* House of Milan Piroćanac
* House of Milorad Pavlović-Krpa
* Studentski kulturni centar (Belgrade)
* Aleksandar Palas Hotel
* Hotel Moskva, Belgrade
== Literature ==
* Alfirević, George. Expressionism in Serbian Architecture . Belgrade: Orionart, 2016.
* Divna Đurić-Zamolo, "Builders of Belgrade 1815-1914", Belgrade 1981.
* Miodrag Jovanović, "Theophilus Hansen," Hansenatics "and Hansen's Serbian Students", Collection of Fine Arts of Matica Srpska 21, Novi Sad, 1986, pages 235-258.
* Aleksandar Kadijević. "A century of searching for the national style in Serbian architecture. Mid-19th - mid-20th century .
* Ljiljana Miletić-Abramović. "Architecture of residences and buildings in Belgrade: 1830-2000". 
* Draginja Maskareli, "Ilkić's project for the Diocesan Home in Niš - an example of neo-Byzantine aspirations in modern Serbian architecture", in: "Niš and Byzantium". Proceedings I , Niš, 2003, pages 141-152.
* Draginja Mascareli, "Hotel" Moscow "in Belgrade", DaNS 55, Novi Sad, 2006, pages 70-71.
 
Category:1857 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:Serbian architects