Zora Petrović (
Dobrica
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Name
In Ser ...
, May 17, 1894 –
Belgrade, May 25, 1962)
was a
Serbian painter. Her notable works can be seen in the
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in Belgrade, and in
Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in
Novi Sad
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.
Biography
She attended a high school in
Pančevo
Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; german: Pantschowa; hu, Pancsova; ro, Panciova; sk, Pánčevo) is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on ...
from 1907 to 1909. In 1912 she enrolled at the Belgrade Arts and Crafts School, where
Milan Milovanović,
Đorđe Jovanović and
Marko Murat were her teachers.
She studied painting in Budapest under professor
Lajos Deák Ébner
Lajos Deák Ébner (18 July 1850, Pest, Austrian Empire–20 January 1934, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary) was a Hungarian painter.
Life
He studied in Munich and Paris, where he joined his fellow painters László Paál and Mihály Munkácsy and c ...
, and took part in the courses of professors
Pál Szinyei Merse
Pál Szinyei Merse (4 July 1845, Szinyeújfalu - 2 February 1920, Jernye) was a Hungarian painter and art educator.
Biography
He was born into a family of the old nobility who supported the Hungarian Revolution. Because of the political unr ...
and
Istvan Reti of the
Barbizon
Barbizon () is a commune (town) in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France. It is located near the Fontainebleau Forest.
Demographics
The inhabitants are called ''Barbizonais''.
Art history
The Barbizon school of painters is na ...
in Nagybanya artists' colony and school, considered very influential in Hungarian and Romanian art. The period from 1915 to 1919 was spent as a student at the Hungarian Royal Drawing School and Art Teachers' College (what became the
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
The Hungarian University of Fine Arts ( Hungarian: ''Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem'', MKE) is the central Hungarian art school in Budapest, Andrássy Avenue. It was founded in 1871 as the Hungarian Royal Drawing School ''(Magyar Királyi Min ...
) under the guidance of professor Lajos Deák Ébner.
She returned to Belgrade in 1919 to attend the Arts and Crafts Painting School with professor
Ljubomir Ivanović.
After, she worked as a teacher in a Belgrade college, and from 1921 to 1944, she taught at the Second Women's Gymnasium "Queen Natalia".
From 1925 to 1926, she lived in
Paris
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where she worked in the studio
André Lhote
André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
Early life and education
Lhote was born ...
for a year.
She worked as a drawing teacher at the
atelier
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of
Mladen Josić School of Painting as a part-time professor of painting from 1942 to 1944. In 1952, she received a job at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and worked there for the rest of her life. She died in Belgrade on May 25, 1962, and was buried in Pančevo.
Painting was her greatest and only love. Since she was unmarried and did not have her own family, Petrović devoted all of her free time to painting. Through her works in oil and watercolor, she wanted to express her love toward life as a whole, poor people and particularly toward the peasant woman from various regions of Serbian lands. She was aware that many people could not understand her artistic creations, yet she painted and continued to paint the way her heart told her to.
Though she has her own accomplished and individual style in painting -- a robust contemporary poetic realism -- Zora Petrović did not live in a closed circle of her own artistic creations.
Her life and her growth as an artist are identical. Even as a beginner, she did not follow the tradition of European women artists. She has always maintained an isolated artistic individuality, strong and bold in color and style.
She was a painter of broad and heavy strokes and a painter of vivid colors and monumental works.
Zora Petrović has always maintained an isolated artistic individuality.
See also
*
List of painters from Serbia
This is a list of notable Serbian painters.
A
* Nikola Aleksić (1808–1873)
* Dimitrije Avramović (1815–1855)
* Ljubomir Aleksandrović (1828–1890)
* Stevan Aleksić (1876–1923)
* Dragomir Arambašić (1881–1945)
* Stojan Aralic ...
References
1894 births
1962 deaths
20th-century Serbian painters
Serbian women artists
Serbian women painters
20th-century women artists
Serbian schoolteachers
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