Zebrnjak

The frescoes in the interior of mausoleum were painted by Živorad Nastasijević, on them were represented pictures from everyday life with figures wearing Serbian folklore clothing.

Of harmonious proportions, with a slender tower, this memorial could be seen from a great distance, even at night, because the light of three petromax lamps erupted from its dome.

An iron staircase led to the space above the chapel, where wooden oak ladders were placed, connecting the five floors of the high tower with concrete galleries.

Expressionist elements are reflected in the triangular base, developed pedestal and free modeling of the high tower of strong silhouette symbolic action.

They are complemented by the recognizable semiotics of heraldic decorative plastic and night lighting of petromax lamps placed in the niche of the egg-shaped end of the obelisk.

According to the sculptural silhouette and organic composition, this monument is in the expressionist sense partly inspired by the concept of Einstein's Tower in Potsdam (1920) by Erich Mendelsohn.

Unveiling ceremony of the memorial on Zebrnjak hill in 1937.
Monument pre-WW2.
An open spiral path.