Vladimir Veličković ( sr-cyr, Владимир Величковић; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter who spent much of his adult life in

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Biography

Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at

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. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić’s master workshop in

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. In 1965, he was honoured with a prize at the Biennale in Paris, where he moved to the following year. Veličković gained public attention in 1967 with an exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris, which established him as one of the leading artists of the Narrative Figuration art movement. In 1983 he was elected professor at the ''

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'' in Paris, and taught there until 2000. In 1985 he was elected a member of

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(SANU) and Honorable doctor of science at

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. He was honoured with the highest French award in the field of culture and arts, the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His paintings were exhibited in many countries in

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and

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since 1951. Since 7 December 2005 he was a member of

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, section I, seat number 7. In 2017 he signed the

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of the

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, Bosniaks and

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Selected exhibitions

Veličković had many solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and North America. * Slovenj Gradec - Koroška galerija, 2012. * Marseille - Galerie Anna-Tschopp, 2013. * Belgrade -

, 2013. * Belgrade - Zepter Muzej, 2013. * Colmar - Espace d'art contemporain André Malraux, 2013. * Rijeka - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2013. * Varna - Biennale internationale de l'Estampe, 2013. * Val d'Isère - Galerie Jane Griffiths, 2014. * Strasbourg - Galerie Nicole Buck, 2014. * Lyon - Galerie Anne-Marie et Roland Pallade, 2014. * Kragujevac - Galerie Rima, 2014. * Montréal - Centre d'art le 1700 La Poste, 2015.

References

External links

Two films about Velickovic
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Official WebsiteVladimir Veličković on Artefacts.netgalerie anne-marie et roland pallade

Portrait of Veličković
by Braun-Vega 1935 births 2019 deaths Serbian painters French male painters Serbian expatriates in France Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture alumni Herder Prize recipients Yugoslav painters Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language {{serbia-painter-stub