Prof. dr. \u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 was a Serb from Croatia, born in Grubi\u0161no Polje in 1885. He graduated in medicine in Vienna in 1909 and continued training in dermato-venerology under the renowned professors Finger and Arning. He worked at the dermatological department of the Brothers of Mercy hospital in Zagreb from 1912.<\/p>\n
He was an army doctor during the First World War. After the war, in 1918, he moved to Belgrade, where he became the head of the Polyclinic for Dermatological and Venereal Diseases and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. He was eventually made full professor. He distinguished himself in the field of dermato-venerology, so he founded the Chair of Dermato-venerology and the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. \u0110urica was an honorary member of numerous foreign dermatological associations, but what distinguished him, apart from his professional and scientific work, was his humaneness. As an army doctor in Zagreb in the First World War, he organized the rescue of many politically undesirable Serbs and Croats so that they weren\u2019t sent to the most dangerous parts of the Austrian battlefront. After the war, he financially helped both people released from internment and numerous orphaned children from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many of them lived in his home while attending school. \u0110urica\u2019s great companion in philanthropy and, after his death, successor in the often-difficult fight for the common good was his wife Kristina \u2013 Krista.<\/p>\n
Kristina Krista \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 was born in Zagreb in 1892 to father Svetislav \u0160umanovi\u0107<\/strong>, a doctor of legal sciences, lawyer, politician, people\u2019s representative and deputy viceroy of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, and mother Katarina. Her father hailed from \u0160id, and his nephew was the famous painter Sava \u0160umanovi\u0107<\/strong>. Kristina\u2019s mother died when she was three years old. Her father sent her to Austrian boarding schools, and she studied languages in Vienna. \u0110urica and Krista met in Zagreb, married after the end of the First World War and moved to Belgrade. Their intensive humanitarian efforts started then. They were affluent and had no children, so they financed poor students and were patrons to many talented artists, among whom the sculptor Sreten Stojanovi\u0107 especially stands out. \u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 sent him to get educated in Vienna. Sreten Stojanovi\u0107 studied under Professors Celezni<\/strong> and Roman Lewandowski<\/strong>, Rodin\u2019s student in Vienna, went to Paris for further studies and then returned to his country, where he was an outstanding and esteemed artist. Krista was also involved in other noble initiatives: she helped build the Cvijeta Zuzori\u0107 Art Pavilion in Kalemegdan and was active in the Cvijeta Zuzori\u0107 Friends of Art Society, which developed into the central art institution in Belgrade. She was the president of the board of the society until October 1938. Many artists gathered at \u0110urica and Krista\u2019s house: painters Milo Milunovi\u0107<\/strong>, Jovan Bijeli\u0107<\/strong>, Sava \u0160umanovi\u0107, Ignjat Job, <\/strong>composers Petar Konjovi\u0107<\/strong>, Kosta Manojlovi\u0107<\/strong>, Miloje Milojevi\u0107<\/strong>, writers Milo\u0161 Crnanjski<\/strong>, Tin Ujevi\u0107<\/strong>, Branislav Nu\u0161i\u0107<\/strong>, Milan Raki\u0107<\/strong>, sculptors Lojze Dolinar<\/strong>, Toma Rosandi\u0107<\/strong>, Sreten Stojanovi\u0107 and others. The \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 house in Strahinji\u0107a Bana Street in Belgrade was adorned with a relief and sculptures by Sreten Stojanovi\u0107, Toma Rosandi\u0107, Lojze Dolinar, Petar Pallavicini <\/strong>and others, and it housed numerous paintings. It was destroyed in the bombing of Belgrade in 1941, and one of the rare preserved reliefs that shows the beauty with which the artists repaid their patrons is on the tomb of the \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 family in the New Cemetery in Belgrade.<\/p>\n After the death of \u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 in 1935, on the first anniversary of his death, his colleagues founded the Dr. \u0110or\u0111e-\u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 Foundation. The relief on his tomb was made by his and Krista\u2019s most devoted friend and protege, the sculptor Sreten Stojanovi\u0107. The white marble tombstone is a horizontal slab with a relief of a kneeling girl with a bent head and arms outstretched towards a departing ship on the sea \u2013 a symbol of great sorrow and a farewell to a departing soul.<\/p>\n After her husband\u2019s death, Krista continued to help poor students, slowly accepting new, revolutionary, communist ideas. She was friends with Ivo Lola Ribar<\/strong>, who connected her with Josip Broz Tito<\/strong>, Rodoljub \u010colakovi\u0107 <\/strong>and others. Rodoljub \u010colakovi\u0107 illegally stayed in her apartment once and Josip Broz Tito twice; she recognized Tito only from posters from 1942. Several times in 1940, she traveled to Paris on orders from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) and transferred the party\u2019s money there. In 1941, Tito left in Krista\u2019s keeping a large number of gold coins he had been given by the Comintern to fund the work of the KPJ. These coins were in her house when it was bombed, and Krista found them after the war, turned into a charred lump of gold mixed with mortar. She returned the gold to Tito.<\/p>\n Since her house was destroyed, for a while at the beginning of the occupation in 1941, she lived at her friend Sreten Stojanovi\u0107\u2019s house. Fearing retribution, she moved to central Serbia, still keeping in touch with members of the KPJ. She spent a short time in Belgrade again and was transferred to liberated territory near the end of the war, in 1944. She then went to London and took over the management of the Red Cross from the government in exile. In late October 1944, she returned to liberated Belgrade. She was the first president of the Antifascist Front of the Women of Serbia and a permanent member of the UN\u2019s Social Committee. She was then the president of the Red Cross of Serbia and the head of the Federal Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.<\/p>\n In 1960, she was the founder and first president of the Society of Friends of the National Museum in Belgrade, to which she gifted all the paintings of her cousin Sava \u0160umanovi\u0107, as well as other artworks from her home. Among them were paintings and sculptures given as gifts by the authors themselves: Sreten Stojanovi\u0107, Pe\u0111a Milosavljevi\u0107, Marko \u010celebonovi\u0107, Milo Milunovi\u0107, Ivan Tabakovi\u0107, Mi\u0107a Popovi\u0107 and others. Even in her old age, she stayed in touch with Josip Broz Tito, who sent her a basket of southern fruit from the garden in Brijuni every New Year. She died in Belgrade in 1981 and was buried next to her husband \u0110urica in the New Cemetery. The tombstone, the work of the sculptor Sreten Stojanovi\u0107, is a testimony to the humaneness and courage of two people who did so much for the development of Serbian art, as well as for numerous young people who were educated thanks to their help.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Translation from Croatian: Jelena \u0160impraga<\/em><\/p>\n In memory of prof. dr. \u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 and his wife Kristina Krista \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":29297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"224","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[330,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upoznajmo-se-en","category-vremeplov","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Djordjevici.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Djordjevici.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Violeta Obrenovi\u0107","author_link":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/author\/violeta-obrenovic"},"rbea_author_info":{"display_name":"Violeta Obrenovi\u0107","author_link":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/author\/violeta-obrenovic"},"rbea_excerpt_info":"In memory of prof. dr. \u0110urica \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 and his wife Kristina Krista \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30100,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions\/30100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/p-portal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Footer-ENGi-1.jpg\")
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