Beta Vukanović (18 April 1872 – 31 October 1972), also known as Babette Bachmayer, was a Serbian painter and centenarian.

Biography

Born in

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, Upper Franconia,

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to a

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family, she initially studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. She also worked with

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. From 1898, she lived mostly in

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. Her earliest works reflected the influence of plein-air painting in Munich, which changed to Impressionism before World War I. Her later style was predominantly realistic; she painted many pictures of the Serbian landscape and its people. She originated Serbian artistic caricature and left around 500 humorous portraits of contemporaries from the social and cultural scene in Belgrade. Beta Vukanović died in

, aged 100.

Personal life

Her husband was an

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painter, Rista Vukanović (born 3 April 1873, Bugovina, near Trebinje,

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- died 7 January 1918, Paris), recognized as one of the artists responsible for taking Serbian art into new directions. He studied at

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and Munich, later teaching at various institutions.

References

External links

Legacy

YouTube channel

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