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Year of death 1979.

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He studied painting at the Academy of Kolarosi and with André Lhote in Paris. On his return he started working as a drawing professor  in Artisan School in Novi Sad. During the thirties he started working as a set designer in the Serbian National Theatre and the National Theatre of the Danube Banovina in Novi Sad. After World War II he worked as a curator and director of the Museum of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, until 1948, when he moved to Belgrade where he worked as a set designer in the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, and later as a professor at the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Theatre, Film , radio and television in Belgrade. He has exhibited since 1926. He was a member of the group "The shape" and "Six".

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Milenko Serban was a Serbian painter, stage designer, a pedagogist and a museum director. He was born in Čerević 04/04/1907. and died in Belgrade in 1979.
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Thursday, April 4, 1907
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Черевић
Szerbia
45° 13' 8.1012" N, 19° 40' 0.0012" E
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Београд
Szerbia
44° 46' 34.0176" N, 20° 27' 43.3296" E
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1907
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Србија
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He comes from a family of craftsmen.he began his painting studies  in the studio of Arsen Teodorović in Novi Sad (until 1826), then went to Vienna and studied at the Academy (1828-1830). He started in the class of antiquity, and continued with history painting. He travels to Italy, where he remained for three years learning about the art of the Nazarenes. He copied the old masters in galleries and painted portraits of Austrian officers of Serbian origin. After Italy in 1834 he comes to Novi Sad, then to Sremski Karlovci, where he copies the portrait of Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirovic. In 1837 he moved to Kikinda and opened a workshop. in1840, he moved to Timisoara, then to  Arad, where he remained until his death. He was a prolific painter. He worked mainly icons, murals and portraits.

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He was a Serbian painter. (Stari Becej, 1808 - Arad, January 1, 1873)
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Stari Bečej
Serbia
45° 36' 8.3844" N, 20° 7' 55.5708" E
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Wednesday, January 1, 1873
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Arad
Serbia
47° 4' 11.7084" N, 21° 55' 3.81" E
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1808
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Serbia
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Nikola Aleksic
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In the early forties of the eighteenth century. ( The exact date of birth and death are not defined)

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Vasiljevich firstly resides in Petrovaradin, the center of Eparchy of Bačka, and upon the invitation of The Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanovich, he arrives to Sremski Karlovci, Metropolitan headquarters, where he founded a school of painting. Patriarch Jovanovich declared a circular banning the work of ignorant painters after Jov's arrival. By that, the art practice of Jov Vasiljevich, his " Doctrine of icon painting of Arts", has been declared the official art of The Metropolitanate of Karlovci .

 

 

 

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45° 14' 58.794" N, 19° 50' 12.642" E
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(није дефинисан тачан датум смрти, умро је у Паризу, 1922)

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Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862 in Cologne, died in Paris in 1927, is a French artist.

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Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862 in Cologne, died in Paris in 1927, is a French artist.
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Saturday, November 22, 1862
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Колоњ
France
43° 43' 18.9084" N, 0° 58' 36.6492" E
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Serbia
48° 51' 18.108" N, 2° 21' 3.8664" E
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1862
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France
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Živorad Nastasijević (Belgrade, September 1893 - Belgrade, 1966) was a Serbian painter, fresco painter and iconographer. Živorad Nastasijević has finished art school in Belgrade in 1910, as a student of Đoka Jovanović, Rista Vukanović and Marko Murat. He continued with the painting studies in Munich with Professor Grabar 1913-1914. but had to discontinue due to the outbreak of the First World War. In 1927, together with Vasa Pomorišac was the initiator and founder of the artist group "Zograf", which is supposed to represent some sort of opposition to progressive and modernist-oriented group "The shape." The artists who were members of the "Zograf" argued for recognition of medieval art and building national style based on medieval heritage and tradition. He died in Belgrade in 1966.

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Živorad Nastasijević (Belgrade, September 1893 - Belgrade, 1966) was a Serbian painter, fresco painter and iconographer.
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Gornji Milanovac
Serbia
44° 1' 27.0012" N, 20° 27' 36" E
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Beč
Serbia
44° 48' 29.8116" N, 20° 27' 23.9976" E
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1893
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Serbia
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Serbian painter and decorator; worthy collector of folk ornaments and crafts, on which basis he tried to establish a national decorative style, particularly Serbian. He was born in Split, under the name of Karlo Inkiostri, and on arrival in Belgrade changed his name to Dragutin, adding his mother's last name next to his father's, Medenjak. Finished primary school and five grades of secondary school , he started with painting, first as a self-taught (1885 - 1892) and then in Florence. At the end of 1905 comes to Belgrade where he remained until 1911, where he worked on the decoration of many important buildings. Since 1912 he was located in Bosnia where he worked patriotic posters, and was prosecuted by the Austrian authorities. During World War I he was in Italy and Trieste. For a time he lived in Ljubljana, and then in 1923 came back to Belgrade. He worked on the establishment of the original Yugoslav decorative styles, particularly Serbian. One of his most important works was the interior of the Vuk's Foundation building (then the building of the Ministry of Education) in Belgrade in 1912

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Једно од његових најзначајнијих дела је уређење ентеријера Дома Вукове задужбине (тада зграда Министарства просвете) у Београду, 1912.

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Serbian painter and decorator; worthy collector of folk ornaments and crafts, on which basis he tried to establish a national decorative style, particularly Serbian. (18. October 1866. Split – 16. September 1942. Belgrade)
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Thursday, October 18, 1866
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Сплит
Croatia
43° 30' 29.2752" N, 16° 26' 24.6948" E
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Wednesday, September 16, 1942
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Београд
Serbia
44° 49' 0.0012" N, 20° 28' 0.0012" E
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1866
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Croatia
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He was born in Orlovat, and attended primary school in Crepaja. After finishing his gymnasium in Pančevo (this school was later named after him), he went to Vienna to study on academy in 1876. He graduated from the Art academy in Vienna in 1880. He studied in the class of professor Christian Griepenkerl, who also taught Predić's contemporary Paja Jovanović. During his studies, he received the Gundel's prize – for a male model painting in oil. In 1882, he worked in private studio of professor Grieppenkerl, and in the period from 1883 to 1885 he was an assistant professor at the Art academy in Vienna. During that time, under the instruction of professor Grieppenkerl, and the renowned architect Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, he painted 13 paintings of mythological content for the parliament building in Vienna.

In 1885, he returned to Orlovat, where he painted a series of paintings about the life of his fellow villagers. After that, in period from 1886 to 1889, he lived in Belgrade, and in period from 1890 to 1893 in Novi Sad and Stari Bečej. From 1894 to 1909, Predić lived in Orlovat, and from 1909, until his death, he lived and worked in Belgrade. First exhibition of his paintings was in 1888 in Belgrade. He had many, many exhibitions, both in Serbia and aboard. Portraits and icons prevail in his opus. He was one of the founders of the "Lada" society in 1904, and became its president. He was elected as associate member of the Serbian Royal Academy on 26 January 1909, and on 3 February 1910 as a regular member. He was one of the founders of the Society of painters in Belgrade in 1919, and was its first president. Uroš Predić painted the icons for the Bečej orthodox church, and the icons for the chapel of Bogdan Dunđerski. He died in 1953 in Belgrade, at the age of 95, as the longest living Serbian painter. He was buried in Orlovat.Some of his famous works include Merry brothers, Orphan (on mother's grave), the historical painting Bosnia-Herzegovinian fugitives and perhaps his most recognizable Kosovo Maiden. Predić also painted the famous portraits of the presidents of Serbian academy: Sima Lozanić, Stojan Novaković (1920), Jovan Žujović (1921), Jovan Cvijić (1923), Slobodan Jovanović (1930), Bogdan Gavrilović (1935) Aleksandar Belić (1940). He also painted portraits of Michael I. Pupin, Laza Kostić, Mihailo Petrović Alas (1943), Ksenija Atanasijević (1917), Branislav Petronijević (1911) amongst others.

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Uroš Predić (Serbian Cyrillic: Урош Предић, pronounced ; Orlovat, 7 December 1857 – Belgrade, 12 February 1953) was one of the greatest Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić. Predić is perhaps best known for his monumental historical painting, Kosovo Maiden, as well as his many portraits.
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Tuesday, August 25, 1857
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Orlovat
Serbia
45° 14' 21.9984" N, 20° 34' 33.9996" E
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Wednesday, February 11, 1953
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Beograd
Serbia
44° 49' 0.0012" N, 20° 28' 0.0012" E
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1857
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Serbia

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