Prof. IBRAHIM KRZOVIĆ, PhD

Born in Sarajevo in 1935. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of History of Art, where he defended his doctoral dissertation, Secession in the architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1987

He worked as a curator at the Gallery of Art of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been involved in art criticism and essay writing, gallery practice and the evaluation of cultural, particularly architectural, heritage. He has organized and set up several exhibitions of contemporary Bosnian and Herzegovinian printmaking abroad (Paris, Dortmund, Berlin, New York, Chicago, Cairo). In addition to many thematic exhibitions, he has prepared and set up several monograph and retrospective exhibitions of Bosnian and Herzegovinian artists: Ismet Mujezinović, Hakija Kulenović, Emir Dragulj, Memnuna Vila and Zlatko Ugljen, which were accompanied by catalogues or monographs.

He taught history of art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Performing Arts, Academy of Music and Faculty of Philosophy, and history of Islamic art at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo. In the 2002/2003 academic year, he founded the sub-department of History of Art within the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo.

He has published a large number of professional papers and ten books – monographs on Bosnian and Herzegovinian art and artists, including: Ismet Mujezinović, Tuzla, 1985; Arhitektura Bosne I Hercegovine 1878-1918, Sarajevo, 1986; Eduard Loidolt, Akvareli iz Bosne i Hercegovine (Aquarelles from Bosnia and Herzegovina 1880-1882), Zűrich, 1999; Ismet Rizvić - Akvareli, Sarajevo, 2004; Arhitektura secesije u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo, 2004; Stari ljetnikovci – kule i čardaci, Sarajevo, 2019.

He was one of the initiators of restoring the work of the Preporod Cultural Society, and then a member of its Board of Directors. On two occasions he was elected the chairman of the Assembly of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from 1998 to 2010 he worked as a representative in the House of Representatives and a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the chairman of the Managerial Board of the Faculty of Islamic Sciences, the Popis 2013 Foundation and the Managerial Board of the Council of Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals. He was the editor of Takvim and publications of the Udruženje Ilmijje  (association that gathers imams, mualims, workers employed by the Islamic Community, as well as muderrises and professors of Islamic faculties) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also been an editor on the editorial board, and editor-in-chief, of the publishing activities of Islamic Community.