Miodrag Petrović (
Dubravica, near
Požarevac,
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 ...
, 12 September 1888 -
Belgrade
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,
Yugoslavia, 10 February 1950) was one of the official war artists of the Serbian army during
World War I.
Miodrag Petrović graduated from the
First Belgrade Gymnasium, where he learned to draw and paint from
Đorđe Krstić in 1906, and then at the
Rista Vukanović School he was taught by painter
Marko Murat, sculptor
Đorđe Jovanović, and graphic designer
Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak
Dragutin Inkiostri-Medenjak ( sr-cyr, Драгутин Инкиостри Медењак; 1866–1942) was a Serbian painter, collector of folk ornaments and handicrafts, and is considered the first interior designer in Serbia. In 1912, he was ...
.
As a recipient of a government scholarship, he studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, until the beginning of the First World War. After voluntarily enlisting in the Serbian army, he was granted the status of an official military artist. He took part in the battles around Belgrade in 1914, and was part of the Serbian army's
Great Retreat through the
Prokletije mountains of
Serbia,
Montenegro, and
Albania to the Greek island of
Corfu
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during the winter of 1915.
By the end of the hostilities, he was stationed on the
Salonika front, and in-field hospitals in
Bizerte
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,
Tunisia and in
Algeria where 324 Serbian soldiers who did not survive medical treatment were buried at
Dély Ibrahim War Cemetery.
After the war, Miodrag Petrović continued his art studies in
Paris and enjoyed an accomplished and eminent artistic career like the colleagues of his generation in Serbia. In 1949 he founded a
guild, the Graphic Artists Collective in Belgrade.
Miodrag Petrović died on 10 February 1950 in Belgrade.
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Works
His paintings are found in federal and municipal art museums throughout the country. Also, Petrović's work can be found in private collections, namely, the collection of Milan Jovanović Stojimirović
Milan Jovanović Stojimirović (Smederevo, Kingdom of Serbia, 19 June 1898 – Belgrad, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 6 March 1966) was a Serbian journalist, diplomat, manager of the Archive of Serbia, and chronicler of Old Belgrade. His vast collection of ...
who bequeathed a vast number of paintings and artifacts to the Art Department of the Museum in Smederevo.
See also
* List of painters from Serbia
References
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1888 births
1950 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
20th-century war artists
People from Požarevac
Serbian expatriates in Germany
Serbian military personnel of World War I
Serbian expatriates in France
20th-century Serbian painters
Serbian male painters
20th-century Serbian male artists