Osječki zbornik, Vol. Vol. 27 No. xx, 2004.
Original scientific paper
Hermann Bollé in Srijem
Ivan Krašnjak
Abstract
The Srijem region, two administrative church regions of the catholic and ortodox services take a significant role in the work of Herman Bollé. His arrival to Croatia was connected with this region i.e. with the bishop J.J. Strossmayer. In Srijem Bollé had been very active throughout his creative work on both activity fields, the restauration and new building of sacral objects. First he was connected only to the catholic church but later on after the political disagreement of the bishop Strossmayer with Kršnjavi and Bollé the latter turned to the orders of the Serbian ortodox church.
The text deals with four objects. The restauration of the pilgrimage church of the Holy Mother of Tekija by Petrovaradin is Bollé's earliest work in this region, his supervision of the works at Đakovo cathedral construction excluding. The restauration influence of Violetta la Duca filtered through the Friedrich Schmidt school is slightly visible on this object as well.
The complete influence of Schmidt's neogothic style is present at other three churches mentioned. Whereas in the Erdevik church Bollé used the features of the neogothic style started in this form in the middle of the 19th century by an English architect A.W.N. Pugin in the church of St. Vendelin in Franjindol (Franztal) in Zemun Bollé appears as Schmidt's student having used bricks as main building and decorative element, material that on Schmidt's merit had became favourite material to build sacral ( neogothic) building with.
In his later project of the parish church in Calma Bollé expresses his consistency in applying neogothic style form but this time in connection with then current question of national style, propagated a few decades earlier by Bollé's tutor I. Krsnjavi.
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Publication date:
6.12.2004.
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