Stevan Knežević

Stevan Knežević ( sr-Cyrl, Стеван Кнежевић; 1940–1995) was a

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

and performance artist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Stevan Knežević was born in

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in 1940. He graduated at the

Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметности у Београду, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies. ...

in 1966, and in 1969 he finished the third degree of studies at the printing department of AFA. Since 1980 he worked as an assistant at the Academy in Belgrade. In 1989 he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1993 to full professor of the AFA. He died in Belgrade in 1995. 1940 births 1995 deaths Serbian printmakers Serbian sculptors Serbian male sculptors Serbian performance artists Artists from Belgrade 20th-century sculptors 20th-century Serbian painters 20th-century printmakers Academic staff of the University of Arts in Belgrade Serbian male painters 20th-century Serbian male artists {{Serbia-artist-stub