Aksentije Marodić

Aksentije Marodić (1838–1909) was a Serbian painter from Vojvodina. He was born in Subotica, the son of Maksim, a tailor, and Ljubica. He was an apprentice of painter Petar Pilić in Senta in 1851–55, then of Nikola Aleksić in Novo Miloševo. While receiving many orders from the leading citizens in Subotica, he also worked for the Serbian Orthodox Church; he restored the Bunarić church icons in 1857. The next year he moved to Bečej, where he made acclaimed portraits and painted the church of baroness Jović in 1861. He studied painting at the Vienna Academy until 1866, thanks to benefactors from Subotica and Bečej and also the local government of Subotica. He then lived in Italy, and upon his return published travelogues in the magazines Zastava and Javor in 1874. Josip Juraj Strossmayer, particularly, valued his work. He was elected to the Matica srpska literary department, and portrayed the benefactors to Matica srpska in 1883. He lived in Kovilj until 1903, then in Novi Sad. His greatest work was the iconostasis in the Kovilj monastery. He was buried in the Dormition cemetery in Novi Sad.

Marodić was the first academic painter from Subotica and a representative of Academicism and Romanticism in Serbian painting in the second half of the 19th century. His birth house is a protected Cultural Monument of Great Importance. A large number of his works are present in the Gallery of Matica srpska, of which 32 works are donated by the Bačka Gallery in Subotica.

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