Roman Petrović
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Roman Petrović (1896, in
Donji Vakuf Donji Vakuf ( sr-cyrl, Доњи Вакуф, ) is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by Malkoçoğlu İbrahim Bey in 1572 and wa ...
– 1947) was a Yugoslav painter and writer. He belongs to the generation of artists who created the history of Bosnian-Herzegovinian (and Yugoslav) painting between the two world wars.


Biography

Born to an ethnic
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family, he was a graduate of the
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in
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, his
expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
art emphasises social themes, borrowing from diverse influences. The Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina named its
gallery Gallery or The Gallery may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Art gallery ** Contemporary art gallery Music * Gallery (band), an American soft rock band of the 1970s Albums * ''Gallery'' (Elaiza album), 2014 album * ''Gallery'' (Gr ...
, opened in 1980, ''Galerija Roman Petrović'' in honour of the painter. The gallery is a main venue for
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and
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exhibitions.''Survey Sarajevo'' Volume 9, Issue 4; Volume 9, Issue 4, Univerzitet u Sarajevu, 1982 "Parallel with this the Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina has organized exhibitions in Dijon, Modena, Baku, in Poland, Germany, while its Gallery "Roman Petrovic", opened in 1980, has also a rich exhibition programme."


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Gallery featuring Petrović's work and other paintings on Sephardi life in the 1930s
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrovic, Roman 1896 births 1947 deaths Yugoslav painters Yugoslav writers