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Slavomir Miletić (born 1930) is a Bosnian Serb sculptor, who lives in the Netherlands. He attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France.[1]
Career
In Yugoslavia, Slavomir Miletić studied at Arts Acedemy of Belgrade.[2] He was noted for his (sometimes large) works, characterized by a rough style and for occasionally provoking controversy. In 1959, Miletić won a scholarship to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He studied there for two years.[2] He had various exhibitions there. He married Elisabeth Toutenhoofd, from The Hague, who received painting lessons in Paris.[2] They moved to the Netherlands in 1960.
His sculptures also did not sell in the Netherlands, even after the media-acclaimed exhibitions in Galerie Loujetsky of The Hague and De Drie Hendricken of Amsterdam.[3][4] At the age of 32, on the brink of being expelled as an artist without money, he started working as a packer at the Honig food plant in Koog aan de Zaan.[2] Director Paul Honig read an article in a Zaandam magazine about the artist's hardships and gave him his first assignment in the Netherlands.[3] One month later, a concrete male figure stood in front of Honig's new building: a laborer carrying a heavy burden.
The Woodworker
The artwork for Honig was received so positively that the Zaandam municipal council commissioned him for 15,000 guilders to make a statue for the new Beatrix Bridge. While Miletić was still working on the preparatory clay model, his artwork was rejected by the city. After an appeal, a new committee also disapproved of the sculpture. Miletic nevertheless continued to work on its model. The municipality then decided to evacuate his workshop (a shed in an old gas factory), after which a fight ensued between opponents and opponents of Miletić.
With the molds that were later intended to cast the statue in bronze, Miletić made a concrete copy of De Houtwerker. This sculpture was placed in Amsterdam along the road to Zaandam. Later, the Woodworker moved to Haarlemmerplein to finally end up on Waterlooplein.
In 1986, the 100-year-old newspaper De Zaanlander still tried to get a bronze copy of the statue in Zaandam, but the municipality did not want to make a place available and the budget also did not end up. In 1994, the concrete statue was moved to Zaandam. In 2002, this concrete statue was temporarily placed at the Zaans Museum, after which in 2004 a bronze copy was finally unveiled by Mayor Ruud Vreeman in the presence of Miletić on the Houthavenkade in Zaandam. The concrete copy is currently located at the Art Center in Zaandam.
The Peace Rocket
In 1981, on the eve of the anti-nuclear weapons demonstration of 21 November 1981, a meter-high sculpture was placed on Museumplein. It was removed in 1995.
References
- ^ "Slavomir Miletic". RKD. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Directie merkt: er werkt een beeldhouwer op de expeditie; En geeft Miletic de opdracht van zijn leven". Trouw. 29 November 1962. Retrieved 19 February 2022 – via Delpher.
- ^ a b "Beeldhouwer-arbeider kreeg opdracht van zijn fabrieksdirectie". Het Parool. 22 November 1962. Retrieved 19 February 2022 – via Delpher.
- ^ Redeker, Hans (8 September 1962). "De kinderen van Slavomir Miletic". Algemeen Handelsblad. Retrieved 19 February 2022 – via Delpher.
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