Milan Kašanin

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Milan Kašanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Кашанин; 21 February 1895 – 22 November 1981) was a Serbian art historian, art critic, curator and writer. He served as the head of three Belgrade based museums, the Museum of Prince Pavle (the modern-day National Museum of Serbia), the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gallery of Frescoes.

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Biography Of humble origins, Kašanin adopted his mother's surname because he was born out of wedlock. Granted a scholarship, he studied art history at the Sorbonne. With the dissertation Bela crkva Karanska (The White Church of Karan), Kašanin obtained his PhD from the University of Belgrade in 1926. He was curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, director of the Museum of Prince Pavle (the modern-day National Museum of Serbia) and the Gallery of Frescoes in Belgrade. He is also known as one of the organizers of some of the first major European art exhibitions in Belgrade, The Italian Portrait Through the Ages, in 1938, and French Painting of the 19th Century one year later. Apart from organizing foreign exhibitions in Yugoslavia, he also organized exhibits of Serbian frescoes and other art in many European capitals, as well as in South America. Kašanin was the founder and editor of the magazine Umetnički pregled (Art Review), which was published between 1937 and 1941. He served as the head of the Museum of Prince Pavle between 1935 and 1944. In order to compile the art collection of the Museum of Prince Pavle, Kašanin traveled through Europe and stayed in the Netherlands, among…Citește mai mult