Đoko Mazalić

One of the first generation of artists to attend art schools. Born in Bosanska Kostajnica, he studied painting at the College of Fine Arts in Budapest (1910-1914). He exhibited in 1912 with Bijelić and Tiješić in Sarajevo. He worked as a professor of graphics in Sarajevo and Travnik, and at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During his lifetime, he became accomplished as a professor, pedagogue, scholar, conservator, art historian and fine arts critic; his versatile work represents undisputed authority in the cultural life of Sarajevo almost throughout the third fourth decade of the 20th century.