Sava Šumanović was a Serbian painter. He is considered to be one of the most important Serbian painters of the 20th century. Šumanović's opus includes around 800 paintings as well as 400 drawings and sketches. He was executed during the mass genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia. Ustaše tortured him and threw him half alive into limestone.
Zora Petrović was a Serbian painter. Her notable works can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad.
Pavle Beljanski was a Serbian lawyer and diplomat, art lover and great connoisseur, collector who acquired the most complete collection of Serbian paintings from the first half of the 20th century, and by giving it to Serbian people, became one of its greatest contributors.
Nadežda Petrović was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter of the period. Born in the town of Čačak, Petrović moved to Belgrade in her youth and attended the women's school of higher education there. Graduating in 1891, she taught there for a period beginning in 1893 before moving to Munich to study with Slovenian artist Anton Ažbe. Between 1901 and 1912, she exhibited her work in many cities throughout Europe.
Živko Stojsavljević was a Serbian painter.
The Museum of Fine Arts, is an art museum in Split, Croatia containing works from the 14th century up to the present day providing an overview of the artistic developments in the local art scene. The museum was founded in 1931, and has a permanent exhibition of paintings and sculptures that includes works by major Croatian artists such as Vlaho Bukovac, Mato Celestin Medović, Branislav Dešković, Ivan Meštrović, Emanuel Vidović and Ignjat Job. The museum also has an extensive collection of icons, and holds special exhibits of works by contemporary artists.
Ignjat "Ignjo" Job was an important representative of colour expressionism in the art scene of Yugoslavia during the 1930s. Job's landscapes of Dalmatia are reminiscent of the style of Van Gogh. He is best known for his series of paintings inspired by life on the island of Brač. Job said that “the beneficial influence of the Brač landscape can be felt, the hot sun, blue sea, and green branches of olive trees swayed by the breath of the maestral”. His paintings depicted the Mediterranean landscape, motifs of the town of Supetar, fishing themes, and more rarely portraits and nudes.
Jefto Perić was a Serbian painter and professor at the Academy of Arts (later to become University of Arts in Belgrade. He is a significant representative of colored realism in Serbian art. Also, he was instrumental in choosing the art in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection.
Ana Marinković was a well-known Serbian artist from the turn of the century until the outbreak of World War II. She has paintings housed in the permanent collections of the Belgrade City Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the National Museum of Serbia, and other locations both in Serbia and abroad.
Milan Kašanin was a Serbian art historian, art critic, curator and writer. He served as the head of three Belgrade based museums, the Museum of Prince Pavle, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gallery of Frescoes.
Kosta Miličević was a Serbian Impressionist painter, known mostly for his landscapes.
Cyril Kutlík was a Slovak-Czech painter, educator and illustrator. He was the founder of the Serbian Drawing and Painting School, one of the first modern painting schools in Belgrade (1895). An advocate of historicism in the visual arts, he is primarily known for his Serbian folklife motifs from the genre, portrait, sacral and historical paintings an illustrating folk calendars.
Živorad Nastasijević was a Serbian painter and war artist.
Natalija Cvetković was a Serbian war artist.
Mališa Glišić was a Serbian painter from the early 20th century and one of the forerunners of Serbian Impressionism with Nadežda Petrović, Kosta Miličević and others of his generation. He was educated in Belgrade and Munich, created works in Italy until the First Balkan War, when he returned to Serbia and joined the army. He died in either 1915 or 1916 under unexplained circumstances. There are very few written documents left about him, as well as few preserved pictures.
Živojin "Žika" Lukić was a Serbian sculptor.
Nebojša Mitrić was a Serbian and Yugoslav sculptor, painter, engraver and medalist.
Vidosava Kovačević was a painter, one of the first Serbian painters to be educated in Paris. She belonged to the circle of artists from the beginning of the 20th century, gathered around the School of Arts and Crafts and professors Rista and Beta Vukanović, as well as Marko Murat. She created in a short period, from 1905 to 1913, during which she crossed the path from realism to impressionism and eventually expressionism.
Danica Jovanović was a Serbian painter. She was part of a generation of Serbian modernists who began their art education at the beginning of the 20th century, whose creative rise was interrupted by the Balkan Wars and the First World War. Jovanović was accused of patriotism and was executed in the Petrovaradin fortress at the beginning of World War I.
