Lazar Drljača (10 October 1882 – 13 July 1970) was a

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, who self-identified as the Bosnian bogumil.

Biography

Born in Blatna near Bosanski Novi into a Bosnian Serb family, he was initially an expressionist, but turned to

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. Drljača identified himself as Bosnian bogumil, therefore he was often called the ''last Bosnian bogumil''. He passed his examination for Fine Arts in

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in October 1906, and in 1911 he participated in the International Exhibition in

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for the

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's pavilion, after which he moved to Paris to attend art school, and worked in the

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copying the old masters,

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and

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, sometimes to commission. From July 9, 1914 to 1919 little is known about his life but a note on a picture records that he was interned in a camp in

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. Just before the

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, sometime around 1935, he returned to Bosnia for good and settled in a village Borci, on a

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between Boračko jezero and Prenj mountain, above

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. He lived there for the rest of his life in seclusion, first in a village, and after he fell ill he moved to a nearby mountain villa, "''Šantića Vila''", above Boračko lake, where he would die in 1970. Although, at this point, in dilapidated state, "''Šantića Vila''" is also National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Works

* Three Horsemen * The cabin of the painter, Blatina, October 1929, watercolor, 205 x 225

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Drljaca, Lazar 1881 births 1970 deaths Bosnia and Herzegovina painters Yugoslav painters People from Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Biography

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