Đorđe Mihajlović

Bosnia & Herzegovina’s first academic painter. He was born in Tuzla and educated in Bakar and Trieste, and the private painting school of Rista Vukanović in Belgrade, and later the Academy of Arts in Munich.

He continued his studies in Italy and France, from where he returned to his native Tuzla. His painting marked the first two decades of the twentieth century, and his works represent the initial phase in the development of contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian fine art.

 He produced over 180 works in various techniques, which are kept in Tuzla (Museum of Eastern Bosnia), Sarajevo (Art Gallery of BiH, International Portrait Gallery) and Belgrade. A street in Tuzla bears his name.