Miodrag Petrović (war artist)
Miodrag Petrović | |
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| Born | 12 September 1888 |
| Died | 10 February 1950 (aged 61) |
Miodrag Petrović (Dubravica, near Požarevac, Kingdom of Serbia, 12 September 1888 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 10 February 1950) was one of the official war artists of the Serbian army during World War I.[1]
Miodrag Petrović graduated from the First Belgrade Gymnasium, where he learned to draw and paint from Đorđe Krstić in 1906, and then at the Rista Vukanović School he was taught by painter Marko Murat, sculptor Đorđe Jovanović, and graphic designer Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak.[2] As a recipient of a government scholarship, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, until the beginning of the First World War. After voluntarily enlisting in the Serbian army, he was granted the status of an official military artist. He took part in the battles around Belgrade in 1914, and was part of the Serbian army's Great Retreat through the Prokletije mountains of Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania to the Greek island of Corfu during the winter of 1915.
By the end of the hostilities, he was stationed on the Salonika front, and in-field hospitals in Bizerte, Tunisia[3] and in Algeria where 324 Serbian soldiers who did not survive medical treatment were buried at Dély Ibrahim War Cemetery.[4][5] After the war, Miodrag Petrović continued his art studies in Paris and enjoyed an accomplished and eminent artistic career like the colleagues of his generation in Serbia.[6][7] In 1949 he founded a guild, the Graphic Artists Collective in Belgrade.[8]
Miodrag Petrović died on 10 February 1950 in Belgrade.[2]
Works
[edit]His paintings are found in federal and municipal art museums throughout the country. Also, Petrović's work can be found in private collections, namely, the collection of Milan Jovanović Stojimirović who bequeathed a vast number of paintings and artifacts to the Art Department of the Museum in Smederevo.[9]
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Topčiderska church, 1925 -
Motif with an old house in Algeria, 1917 -
In the hospital, 1917
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Stories of a Serbian War Artist | Europeana Blog".
- ^ a b Петровић, Петар. "Биографија; Миодраг ПЕТРОВИЋ (Дубравица код Пожаревца, 12. IX 1888 – Београд, 10. II 1950)". Галерија РТС Београд (2016). Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ Allcock, John B.; Young, Antonia (January 22, 2000). Black Lambs & Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the Balkans. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781571817440 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jovičić, Jelena. "Promotion of the book "Serbian Army Cemetery in Algeria"".
- ^ "Srpsko groblje u Alziru nije zaboravljeno - Vesti Krstarica 17 March 2008 (Serbian)". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "American Society Legion of Honor Magazine". American Society of the French Legion of Honor. January 22, 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Honneur Et Patrie". American Society of the French Legion of Honor. January 22, 1944 – via Google Books.
- ^ Раић, Маријана Петровић (January 22, 2003). "Драгослав Стојановић Сип (1920-1976): скица за портрет". Музеј примењене уметности – via Google Books.
- ^ The Legacy of Milan Jovanovic Stojimirovic in the Art Department of the Museum in Smederevo.
