Đorđe Prudnikov
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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
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), 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
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in March 2017, at the age of 77.


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Gallery of Artworks
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