Petrović Nadezda

One of the most prominent Serbian painters. Born in Chachak in 1873. Started her art education in Belgrade in 1891 at the Female Gymnasium and later in Drawing School. Later she became a student of Djordje Krstić and during 1896/97 attends the Art School of Kiril Kutlik. Studied at the Art Academy in Munich under […]

Petković Nikola

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Born in 1893 in Indzija, Serbia, died in 1952 in Pittsburg, Nikola Petković was painter and priest who lived and worked in Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and USA. He was rather unknown painter, however since recently he has been re-discovered and compared with the best Serbian painters of his time (like Nadezda Petrović). He was born […]

Nastasijevic Zivorad

Born in Gornji Milanovac on 26.01.1893, died in Belgrade on 06.01.1966. Graduated from Art School in Belgrade (1905-13) and later studied art in Munich (1913- 14), Paris at the Academy Grand Chaumiere (1920-22). He was a volunteer in the Great War in first as a soldier in 1917 and later as war painter of the […]

Milovanović Milan

Milan-Milovanovic-1876-–-1946-The-bridge-of-Emperor-Dushan-Skopje-1907-oil-on-canvas

Born on 19.10.1876 in Krushevac, died on 15.08.1946 in Belgrade. Milan Milovanović was extraordinarily educated artist when compared to his contemporaries. He went through five different art schools, graduated two academies and had nearly ten different teachers: pupil of Kiril Kutlik 1895-96, A. Azhbe 1897, Munich Academy of Fine Arts whеre he graduated in 1902, […]

Milosavljević Stevan

Born on 01.10.1881 in Opovo, died on 09.05.1926 in Panchevo. From 1900-04 he was a teacher in Omoljnica (Province of Banat, Serbia). He attended Art School in Budapest in 1904/5 and in 1905 he enrolled at the Fine Art Academy in Munich. Graduates in 1908. In the First World War he was a war painter […]

Mihajlović Nikola

Born on 06.05.1885 in Novi Sad, died in 1942 in a police raid. Student of Rista Vukanović in Belgrade and later student of the Art School in Budapest and Fine Arts Academy in Munich between 1908-12. He was an art teacher in Prizren and Skopje until 1932. He was an official Serbian Army painter during […]

Marjanović Rista

Rista-Marjanovic-1885-1969-Serbian-Horse-unit-entering-Skopje-Oct.1912

Born in Šabac on 01.03.1885, died in Belgrade on 07.04.1969. He was the first Serbian photojournalist. His photographs from the Balkan wars and the First World War have priceless documentary value. During the first Balkan war in 1912, he worked as an editor of the American newspaper New York Herald for Europe. He went to […]

Lubarda Petar

Born in Ljubotinj near Cetinje, 27.07.1907, died in Belgrade on 13.02.1974. Petar Lubarda was a Montenegrin Serb painter, considered to be an influential figure on post-war painting in former Yugoslavia. He studied painting in Belgrade and Paris. From 1932 until his death he lived in Belgrade, with exception of period 1946 – 1950 when he […]

Jovanović Paja

Paja Jovanović (Paul Joanovitch) was a renowned Serbian painter, exponent of academic realism. He was born in Vrsac in 1859. He learned painting skills in Vienna Academy of Art and spent most of his life between Belgrade and Vienna. Jovanović was renowned portrait painter, amongst numerous portraits he made were portraits of Austrian emperor Franz […]

Ivanović Ljubomir

Ljubomir Ivanovic 1882-1945 In front of a bakery in Struga 1937 drawing

Born and died in Belgrade. He was an important Serbian painter from the so called “First Generation of Serbian Impressionists”. Upon advice of the painter Djordje Krstic, he started studying art at the Serbian Drawing and Painting School. Later he studied at the Munich Art Academy (1905-1909) in the class of prof. Ludwig Levc and […]