Jovan Gojković: Retrospektiva

He made drawings (pencil, pen, washed ink) and watercolors, as well as lithographs and some etchings in which he realistically depicts landscapes and architectural objects, preoccupied with the motifs of old Osijek and the Drava coast. The works on his travels (Istria, Dalmatia, Hrvatsko zagorje, Zagreb) are also created in a direct encounter with the motif. Prone to precision, he created faithful documents of historical settings and monumental values ​​(Motif from the Fortress, 1924; Kostelgrad, 1939). He painted bright colors (Veduta Osijek, 1937), later dull, especially gloomy and foggy landscapes by the water (Pejzaž uz Drava, 1955); during the 1950s he painted more subjectively (View of the Fortress, 1955; Veslački klub Drava, 1957; watercolors in the Art Gallery Osijek). He exhibited independently in Osijek (1924 with I. Rocha, 1953 with J. Leović, 1956) and Nuremberg (1956 with B. Kovačević), and collectively, among others, at the exhibitions of the Club of Croatian Writers and Artists in Osijek (1924, 1926–27, 1929), the 1st Rijeka International Exhibition in 1925, exhibitions of the Society for the Promotion of Science and Art in Osijek (1932, 1935, 1940) and Osijek fine artists in Osijek (1946, 1948, 1954, 1957–58), exhibitions 100 year of Osijek painting (Osijek 1950).