Đorđe Prudnikov (, ''Djordje Prudnikoff'') (19 April 1939 – March 2017) was a Russian-Serbian painter, graphic artist, and designer.

Biography

Prudnikov was born in

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in 1939, his family moved to

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in 1946. He enrolled at the Belgrade Academy of Applied Arts (now part of the

University of 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. ...

), where he graduated in the class of professor Mihajlo Petrov. He has been claimed as one of the most original contemporary artists to emerge from the former

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. Đorđe Prudnikov died in

in March 2017, at the age of 77.

References

External links

Gallery of Artworks
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