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Dr. Bosko Babic
(1924-1998)

 

Founder

President of CCA-Prilep 1957-1998)

Born on February 19, 1924, he began his education in Croatia, and continued it in Serbia, in Belgrade, in the Civil High School and the Trade Academy, from which he was expelled in 1943 due to his actions against the occupier. He joined the partisans and was seriously injured before the end of the war, when he was banned from any further intellectual work. But his restless spirit did not stop there and after the war he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and graduated from the Department of Art History. After the turbulent war years, he brings his life path to Prilep. Shortly after his arrival, at the end of 1954, he founded the National Museum in Prilep, of which he was director until 1980. Organizer of many cultural events, as well as founder of most cultural institutions in Prilep, including the PPI Institute of Old Slavic Culture. He is also to blame for the creation of several museum collections of ethnological and archeological antiquities, the collection of icons, as well as one of the most important collections of objects for enjoying tobacco.

 

In the period of his activity he always manages to keep the place among the first in the world of culture and science in Prilep and Macedonia, and it is not modest to say among the world cultural public. In 1970 he initiated the formation of the Archaeological Society of Macedonia and was its first president, in 1972 he was elected first president of the Association of Archaeologists of Yugoslavia, and in 1975 in Kiev he was elected president of the International Union of Slavic Archeology. In 1980 he received his doctorate from the Marija Kiri Skлodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He started and edited the professional magazines "Balcanoslavica" and "Macedoniae Acta Achaeologica", and in his many years of scientific research he left behind a large number of professional papers and won numerous domestic and international awards, recognitions and medals. His active participation in the cultural life in Macedonia and beyond, beyond the boundaries of his professional activity, can be seen through his active participation in the work of the cultural magazine "Stremez", as a longtime member of the editorial board and in a period as his editor-in-chief. Bosko Babic is also the first president of the Vojdan Chernodrinski Theater Games. He is the author of several film and television scripts, reports and projects. He is the coordinator for Yugoslavia within the international project "Encyclopedia of Early European History".

 

In 1957 he founded the "International Painting Colony" and thus begins our long journey in the world of art and establishes our present existence. He did not stop there and in 1963 he formed the first "International Sculpture Symposium - Marble", and in 1971 the "International Studio for Plastic in Wood". As an excellent connoisseur of contemporary art, a tireless fighter and with great efforts in 1980 he managed to establish the Center for Contemporary Fine Arts - Prilep, within which the three above-mentioned international art workshops continue to operate. As part of the Center, on his initiative, the "International Stained Glass Atelier", the "International Ceramics Workshop" and the "International Atelier for Art Photography" were formed. His vision, perseverance, dedication and knowledge are the foundation on which we stand today. The title with which he left this world on September 20, 1998 is a Lifetime Honorary President of the Center for Contemporary Fine Arts - Prilep - a title that only Dr. Bosko Babic to wear it.

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