Milan Milovanović (

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: Милан Миловановић; 19 October 1876 – 15 August 1946) was a Serbian

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter and art teacher.

Biography

After finishing his secondary education in 1896, he enrolled at the art school operated by in Belgrade. The following year, he began taking lessons with

Anton Ažbe Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905) was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienn ...

in Munich and, shortly after, enrolled at the

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where he initially studied with

Karl Raupp Karl Raupp (2 March 1837 in Darmstadt – 14 June 1918 in Munich) was a German landscape and genre painter. Biography After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, he became a pupil and zealous follow ...

, then

Ludwig von Herterich Ludwig von Herterich (13 October 1856, Ansbach - 25 December 1932, Etzenhausen, today in Dachau) was a German painter and art teacher. He is best known as a painter of portraits and history paintings and is a representative of the Munich Schoo ...

and Carl von Marr. After graduating in 1902, he spent four years studying and working in Paris, beginning at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

, then at the

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, where he worked with

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...

and

Luc-Olivier Merson Luc-Olivier Merson (21 May 1846 - 13 November 1920) was a French academic painter and illustrator. He was also known for his postage stamp and currency designs. Biography Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an arti ...

. Upon returning to Belgrade, he received a commission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study

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monasteries in Serbia,

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and

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. In 1904 in

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, he also assisted Živko Jugović. His art in those areas inspired him to paint works with much light, mostly depicting architecture in natural settings. His painting of the Stone Bridge in

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is one of the first examples of Serbian Impressionism. During World War I, he served in the

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; painting mostly scenes with soldiers and portraits of officers. After a serious illness in 1915, he was sent to Italy for recovery and resumed his usual themes. During that period, and immediately after, he lived in Rome, Southern France and

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. From 1908 until 1933, he was an occasional teacher at the in Belgrade. His output of paintings decreased dramatically after 1920, but he did restorative work on

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

es and wrote some occasional art criticism.* He was married to Olga Mišić (1886–1977), the daughter of Field Marshal

Živojin Mišić Živojin Mišić ( sr-cyrl, Живојин Мишић; 19 July 1855 – 20 January 1921) was a field marshal who participated in all of Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918. He directly commanded the First Serbian army in the Battle of Kolubara an ...

.KOLUBARA Izdavačko društvo * Valjevo, Srbija
/ref> He is the maternal uncle of architect

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Selected paintings

File:Milan Milovanović - Terrace in the Sunlight (1917).jpg, Terrace in the Sunlight File:Milan Milovanović - On the Coast of Hilandar (1907).jpg, On the Coast by

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References

External links

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Biography and paintings
@ Riznica Srpska
Brief biography
@ ARTE {{DEFAULTSORT:Milovanovic, Milan 1876 births 1946 deaths Serbian painters Serbian Impressionist painters People from Kruševac

Biography

Selected paintings

See also

Further reading

References

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