Pavle Simić

Pavle Simić (Novi Sad, Austrian Empire, 1818 – Novi Sad, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 17 January 1876) was one of the most significant artists during the Serbian Romantic era.

Biography Proclamation of Serbian Vojvodina at the May Assembly in 1848 in Sremski Karlovci. Author: Pavle Simić (1818–1876) Pavle Simić was born into a family of merchants. Having lost his parents very early, he was taken in by his grandfather who was a priest in Kanjiža.

He completed his secondary education in Sombor and Subotica, then he enrolled in a private art school in Novi Sad and joined the Atelier of Aloiza Castagni, an Italian painter, originally from Mantua. In December 1837 he moved to Vienna and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. There he studied the history of painting until 1841 and received the Gundel Prize. and that of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Archangel Michael of Senta (1859).

He still worked in the church of St. Nicholas of Novi Sad (1863) and in the chapel of Platon Atanacković, in the cemetery of Almaš in Novi Sad (1864). Also, his art can be found in the church of St. Nicholas of Bašaid, in the Banat (1864-1866), the church of Orahovica Monastery in Slavonia (1867), the old church of Glina (1866-1868), Church of St. George of Sombor (1870-1873) and Hariševa Chapel of Zemun (1874).

Simić is even better known as a portrait painter. His portraits include Probojčević, Čovek u belom prsluku and Archpriest Matija Nenadović, some of the finest Serbian paintings of the mid-nineteenth century. Among his small portraits are Agripina Grujić and the poet Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja.

He is also the author of historical compositions, some of which has now disappeared.