Zora Petrović
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Zora Petrović (
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, May 17, 1894 –
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, May 25, 1962) was a
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painter. Her notable works can be seen in the
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in Belgrade, and in
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in
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.


Biography

She attended a high school in
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from 1907 to 1909. In 1912 she enrolled at the Belgrade Arts and Crafts School, where Milan Milovanović, Đorđe Jovanović and
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were her teachers. She studied painting in Budapest under professor Lajos Deák Ébner, and took part in the courses of professors
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and Istvan Reti of the
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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
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) under the guidance of professor Lajos Deák Ébner. She returned to Belgrade in 1919 to attend the Arts and Crafts Painting School with professor
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. 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
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where she worked in the studio
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for a year. She worked as a drawing teacher at the
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of
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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. Her awards include ''Oktobarska nagrada (1956) a''nd ''Orden Svetog Save (1958).''


Painting

The 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 the peasant women 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 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, vivid colors, and monumental works. While her works feature landscapes, still life, and other motifs, she was primarily a painter of female figures.


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 Arali ...


References

1894 births 1962 deaths 20th-century Serbian painters Serbian women artists Serbian women painters Serbian schoolteachers 20th-century women painters {{Serbia-painter-stub