Tour: Kovacica and Idvor
Tourist Guide
Maja Rogan
Kovacica is small town located 47 km from Belgrade. Kovacica is well known for this tradition of naive painting. In Gallery of Naive Art small collection of works are for sale but painting can be purchased at the private Gallery "Babka", located next door. Town was founded in 1802.
Mihailo Pupin Serbian physicist and physical chemist was born 1854. in the village Idvor near Pančevo - Serbia.
He emigrated to U.S. when he was only 20. Pupin's 1894 invention, now known as "Pupin coil", greatly extended the range of long-distance telephones. This was a very important invention, and, when the American rights to the patent were acquired by American Telephone and Telegraph, made him wealthy.
In 1911 Pupin became a consul of Kingdom of Serbia in New York. In his speech to Congress on January 8, 1918, known as the Fourteen Points speech, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, inspired by his conversations with Pupin, insisted on the restoration of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as autonomy for the peoples of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Michael Pupin's autobiography, "From Immigrant to Inventor", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924
Naive picture Naive picture Church in Kovacica Organ player
Janko Siroma
Souvenirs
M. Pupin
house
M. Pupin
working room
M. Pupin Museum