Miloš Golubović (

Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the List of cities in Serbia, fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Se ...

, 31 March 1888 —

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21 May 1961) was a Serbian artist, who during the

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, was already an accomplished and acclaimed painter.

Biography

Miloš Golubović was born on 31 March 1888 in Kragujevac,

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(now

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). He finished elementary and grammar school in Belgrade. He worked as an apprentice with the painter Nikola Milojević. In 1903 he enrolled in the Art School in Belgrade, where he studied painting with

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and

Marko Murat Marko Murat ( sr-Cyrl, Марко Мурат; December 30, 1864 – October 14, 1944) was a Serbian painter from Dubrovnik who spent 20 years of his life in Belgrade, becoming a leading member of the Serbian and Yugoslav art scene at the time, b ...

, and subsequently, in 1908, although he was among the most talented students, he completed the School of Arts and Crafts. In the meantime, he first traveled to

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in 1904, then to

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and from 1905 to 1907 resided in

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and then in

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. He attended the

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in 1909. He continued his art education in 1910 and 1911 in the

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. Then he suddenly returned to Belgrade, where he opened his first solo exhibition at the Civic Casino in 1912. After a brief period in the

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, he returned to Lausanne again in 1913, where he made his living by painting portraits and cooking. He spent the

first on the front and then as a war painter under the Supreme Command. He participated with

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Živorad Nastasijević Živorad Nastasijević (Gornji Milanovac, 1893 - Belgrade, 1966) was a Serbian painter and war artist. Biography He was born into a family where his brothers included artists, Momcilo Nastasijević, Slavomir Nastasijević, and Svetomir Nastasijev ...

and

Stevan Milosavljević Stevan Milosavljević (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 18 December 1827 – Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 13 February 1879) was a Serbian physician and politician, who was one of the founders of the Serbian Medical Society. Biography Stevan Milos ...

at the "Exhibition of War Painters of the Supreme Command", which was held with great success at the "King Peter I Public School" near the Cathedral Church in Belgrade in 1919. He then resided in

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from 1919 to 1920. From 1920 he was employed by the Evening Arts and Crafts School in Belgrade, then as a professor of drawing at the Commerce Academy, the Secondary Technical School, and the Art School. From 1945 until his retirement in 1955 he was a professor at the XIV Men's Gymnasium in Belgrade. He was a member of the Medulić Society, one of the founders of the "Association of Fine Artists" (ULUS) in 1919, the Association of Serbian-Croatian Artists "

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" (1920 to 1922, and since 1927), and in 1922 he became a member of the Main Board of the Association of Yugoslav Artists in Zagreb. In 1939 he was one of the founders of the Association of War Painters and Sculptors in 1912 to 1918 in Belgrade.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Golubovic, Milos 20th-century Serbian painters 1888 births 1961 deaths Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni

Biography

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