Oto Logo

Oto Logo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ото Лого; 15 August 1931 – 4 January 2016) was a Serbian sculptor and painter.

Biography

He was born 15 August 1931^[1] in Belgrade. He finished high school in Subotica, and then he graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in the sculpture department.^[2] He was a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, better known as ULUS - from 1955^[3] to 2007 when he retired.^[4]

He died in Belgrade on 4 January 2016 at age 85.^[5] He was buried in Alley of the Greats of the Belgrade New Cemetery.

Exhibitions

He has exhibited at a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has organized solo exhibitions in the following cities: Belgrade, Paris, Venice, Skopje, Sarajevo, Liège, Brussels, Niš, Zürich, Mannheim, New York, London, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Arandjelovac, Novi Sad, Struga, Ohrid, Zemun, Mionica.^[3]

He independently exhibited sculpture and graphics in Belgrade in 1957, 1959 and 1962. He has exhibited at exhibitions:

• "Contemporary Serbian graphics", Novi Sad, 1959.
• III and IV "International Exhibition of Graphics", Ljubljana.
• I and II "Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphics", Zagreb.
• Exhibitions "Contemporary Yugoslav Graphics" in Venice, Turin, Milan, Rome, Tokyo and Cuba.
• Exhibition "Contemporary Serbian Art", Zagreb, 1963.^[6]

After a long break, Otto Logo exhibited his nine exhibits at the group exhibition "Fashion Avenue Art", in the Audi salon, in Belgrade, on May 27, 2008.^[7][8] He also exhibited in the "Gallery '73" in a group exhibition entitled "Chronicle of Art Sremčica", from August 26 to September 4, 2008.^[9]

Works

Otto Logo is the author of a large number of sculptures, busts and monuments.

• Monument to Fallen Soldiers, Kovačica, 1954.
• Bust Louis Pasteur, Subotica, 1965.
• Bust of Andrija Štampar, Subotica, 1966.
• Monument "Shell", Arandjelovac, 1966.
• Bust of Ludwik Hirzfeld, Subotica, 1967.
• Bust Milan Jovanović Batut, Subotica, 1968.
• Bust Edward Jenner, Subotica, 1968.
• Monument Dragojlo Dudić, Valjevo, 1971.
• Monument "Prozivka" or "SNOP", Subotica, 1977.^[a]
• Monument to Branko Krsmanović, Paraćin, 1981.^[b]
• Monument to the Battle of Ljig in 1941, Ljig, 1981.
• Monument to the fallen fighters of NOR, Obrenovac, 1983.
• Monument Ivan Sarić | to Ivan Sarić, Subotica, 1984.
• Monument to Major Victims in 1942.
• Monument to the national hero Dušan Jerković, Bajina Bašta, 1987.
• Monument to Živojin Mišić, Mionica, 1988.
• Monument to the warriors of the liberation wars 1912-1918. year, Aleksandrovac, 1990.
• Monument to Jovan Cvijić, Belgrade, 1994.^[11][3]

In Memorial Museum "21 October "Kragujevac" are two sculptures made of galvanized sheet metal, one opposite the other, by Otto Log: "Penetration to the East", an eagle sculpture symbolizing the German military force at the beginning of the war and "Death of a Mastodon", a sculpture representing a bird that turns into a shapeless mass of metal. thus symbolizing the collapse of the Fascist movement.^[12]

• He designed the "Great Golden Plaque - Duke Živojin Mišić".^[13]

Gallery

• 
  Živojin Mišić, Mionica
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  Branko Krsmanović, Paraćin
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  Ivan Šarić, Subotica
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  Јovan Cvijić, Belgrade
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  Monument to Mass Victims 1942, Soldier
• 
  Маrko Miljanov, Podgorica

Notes

1. The monument was inaugurated on December 18, 1977.
2. The monument was inaugurated on May 9, 1981.^[10]