rendering the Military Frontier officers and border men. At the same time, he produced a series of designs illustrative of Old Testament history. From 1834 to 1873 Danil threw himself into the Biedermeier and the sacral painting based on the school of Vienna Nazarene movement, and became one of its regional leaders. He worked in his own atelier at 37 Tsar Dušan Street in Veliki Bečkerek where numerous Serbian artists were apprenticed, including poet-painter Đura Jakšić and artist Lazar Nikolić, who wrote a biography of his teacher. Danil was a Serbian Orthodox Christian. In 1872 his wife, Sofia Dely, died, and a year later (1873), Danil died in Veliki Bečkerek (Zrenjanin) on 13 May. Work His chief pictures are Madonna, Male Portrait, Still Life, Stanci Dely (his father-in-law), Archangel Gabriel, Ms Vaigling, Ms Tetesi, and, best known of all, General Stevan Kničanin and Portrait of Maria (1872). The portraits of his wife Sofia Dely (1840), Petar Jagodić, and A Lady with a Cross are among his best achievements in this class. Danil painted a number of portraits of the wealthe Jagodić family. Portrait of Captain Kljunović and his wife impressed a Serbian Orthodox priest by the name of Arsenović, who selected Danil to decorate the walls, dome and iconostasis of a new Serbian Orthodox church in Pančevo with figures of saints. Upon completion of his commission (iconostasis) in 1833 Danil received an honorarium of 4,000 silver florins. Iconostases painted by Danil can also be found in Timișoara, Uzdin, Dobrica and Jarkovac. Public collections His work can be found in the following public collections: National Museum of Serbia Gallery of Matica Srpska Timișoara Art Museum National Museum of Pančevo National Museum of Zrenjanin A lot of his work used to be found in private collections. Legacy Danil is remembered as a master of technique, and his portraits reveal an extraordinary study into the characters of his subjects. Nevertheless, for some time after his death his name was almost forgotten by the public, and it is only in the twentieth century that he has been conceded the position among the masters of the modern Serbian school which is his due. On the basis of his early art work in Temișvar, Konstantin Danil is also claimed by three other nations, Romania, Austria and Hungary. He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs. Gallery See also List of Serbian painters References Further reading