Lazar Drljača (10 October 1882 – 13 July 1970) was a
Bosnia and Herzegovina painter
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, who self-identified as the
Bosnian bogumil.
Biography
Born in
Blatna
Blatna (Cyrillic: Блатна) is a village in the municipality of Novi Grad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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near
Bosanski Novi into a
Bosnian Serb family, he was initially an
expressionist, but turned to
impressionism.
Drljača identified himself as Bosnian bogumil, therefore he was often called the ''last Bosnian bogumil''.
He passed his examination for Fine Arts in
Vienna in October 1906, and in 1911 he participated in the International Exhibition in
Rome for the
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Princi ...
's pavilion,
after which he moved to Paris to attend art school, and worked in the
Louvre copying the old masters,
Titian and
Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes to commission. From July 9, 1914 to 1919 little is known about his life but a note on a picture records that he was interned in a camp in
Sardinia.
Just before the
World War II, sometime around 1935, he returned to Bosnia for good and settled in a village
Borci, on a
karst
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plateau between
Boračko jezero Boračko jezero is glacial lake is situated in Konjic Municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Vojnogeografski institut, Ed. (1955): Konjic (List karte 1:100.000, Izohipse na 20 m). Vojnogeografski institut, Beograd.
It lies at the northeastern foot o ...
and
Prenj mountain, above
Konjic. He lived there for the rest of his life in seclusion, first in a village, and after he fell ill he moved to a nearby mountain villa, "''Šantića Vila''", above Boračko lake, where he would die in 1970. Although, at this point, in dilapidated state, "''Šantića Vila''" is also
National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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* sites, places, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance, as designated by the Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis ...
.
Works
* Three Horsemen
* The cabin of the painter, Blatina, October 1929, watercolor, 205 x 225
See also
*
List of painters from Bosnia and Herzegovina
This is a list of notable painters from, or associated with, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
B
* Mersad Berber (1940-2012)
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* Braco Dimitrijević (born 1948)
* Vojo Dimitrijević (1910-1980)
* Lazar Drljača (1881-1970)
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* Kosta Hakman (1899-1961) ...
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Art of Yugoslavia
The art of Yugoslavia is the visual art created by a number of painters, sculptors and graphics artists in Yugoslavia.
Origins
Visual arts in the territories that later became Yugoslavia were primarily limited to religious arts until the 19th cen ...
References
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1881 births
1970 deaths
Bosnia and Herzegovina painters
Yugoslav painters
People from Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina