Atanasije Popović

Artist born in Trebinje, who received his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, graduating in 1914. He stayed on as a teaching assistant for a further 5 years. He spent the majority of his life in Dubrovnik where he also worked as a professor of drawing and art history at the Dubrovnik Gymnasium. He became one of the first painters of social themes in Yugoslavia and painted some of the most life like portraits of families in Herzegovina and Dubrovnik. He was one of the first academic painters in Herzegovina.