Osječki zbornik, Vol. Vol. 30 No. xx, 2011.
Original scientific paper
Historicist Renovation of the St. Stephen Parish Church in Srijemska Mitrovica in 1891
Dragan Damjanović
; Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti, Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
The architect Herman Bollé (Cologne, 1845 - Zagreb, 1926) designed a number of architectural plans for the Serbian Orthodox church in Croatia during his longtime active career. Most of these plans are well-known (restoration of the Zagreb Orthodox church, a cathedral in Pakrac, a monastery and a church in Grgetegu, the Kukulj chapel at Mirogoj, a church in Stikada, Segestin and so on). However many works have remained unknown until now since his design documents have been preserved only in fragments. Among them is the plan for the restoration of the Orthodox parish church of archdeacon St. Stephen in Srijemska Mitrovica in 1891. The Bollés project authorship was confirmed by various catalogues and exhibit descriptions by Croatian architects at the Millennium exhibition in Budapest where this architect exhibited his projects for the church in Mitrovica. The church restoration was performed mostly in the interior - an illustration was done by a notable decorative painter Ivan Clausen from Zagreb, new benches, chandeliers, candlesticks were set and the choir above the entrance was rebuilt. Stylistic resolution of the interior was performed in the then interpretation of neobyzantine style and very similar to the earlier Bolles work for Orthodox church - the interior of the Zagreber parish church that he was restoring from 1883 to 1884.
He intervened incomparably less at the building facades - a little more richer architectural plastic art emphasized only window orifices. The church garden was enclosed by a new fence with very representative portals made in neorenaissance style.
Like other Bollé’s neobyzantine restoration interventions, the church in Mitrovica was not restored because of aspirations to returning the "original” style to it but exclusively because of aspirations to stylewise express building function as Orthodox church (hence the neobyzantine elements in the arrangement of the interior) and also to reflect the trends of the time to a greater extent. The simple architecture and facilities of this baroque classicist building could not suffice to horror - vacui in the late 19 th century.
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Publication date:
20.12.2011.
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