MARKO OMCIKUS

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Marko Omcikus was born on the 3rd of November in 1947 in Belgrade. He graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy, department of Art History, University of Belgrade, in 1974. Since 1974 he had been periodical consultant of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia, and in 1978 he became a full-time associate of the Institute, working in the field of the protection of movable cultural heritage and the prevention of illegal trade of movable cultural heritage. In the year of 1984 he took on the job of taking care of the monuments of Serbian provenience out of the territory of Yugoslavia. Since 1989 he has been the head of the Department for Protection and Documentation of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural monuments of Serbia.

He has acquired special experience working on the field, cooperating on complex conservation work of the Monasteries of Studenica and Ljubostinja, and on identification of the discovered objects saved from the ruins after the earthquake in Montenegro (in 1979). He is the coauthor of projects of physical-technical and fire prevention of categorized monuments in Serbia (1981). He has submitted diagnostic field - reports on the condition of objects and frescoes in them, specially on the monuments of Serbian provenience abroad. In the situation of ethnic conflicts at the territory of former Yugoslavia he was particularly engaged in the protection of cultural heritage from the damage made by war actions, on recording the condition of monuments and taking concrete measures on saving and evacuation of movable cultural heritage.

He has published articles (reports, theoretical studies and translations) in professsional journals, quoted later on. He colaborates on encyclopedies' entries. He works on the catalogue entries, specially on Moslem monuments and the monuments of technological culture.

He also writes magazine articles on the problems of the protection of cultural heritage. In the scope of the exchange of experts he went to Germany (in 1982) and England (1993).

At international meetings he was the member of the Yugoslav delegation and read the report on the symposium of OEBS on the protection of cultural heritage in Krakow (Poland) in 1992; he was a guest with the report at the General Conference of Europe Nostre in Vienna in 1996; an observer at the General Conference of ICOMOS in Sofia (1996); he submitted a report in the project "The Danube - Cultural Route" St. Polten, Austria; he was a participant in the Workshop on Prevention from Earthquakes and Natural Catastrophies (ICOMOS was one of the co-organisers) Skoplje - Ohrid (1997), Regional Conference organized by the Greek National Committee of ICOMOS, Athens (1997).

Since 1994 he has been the president of the Executive Board of the Society of Art Historians of Serbia. He was reelected in 1998.

At the Inaugural Assembly of the National Committee of ICOMOS he was assigned the duty of the president.