Jovan Bijelić

Academic painter who was born near Bosanski Petrovac. Bijelić is one of the most important representatives of color expressionism painting in Yugoslavia. When the Czech painter Jan Karel Janovski came to Sarajevo in 1906 and opened a painting school, Jovan Bijelić enrolled in that school, where during his schooling he received a solid craft foundation for his further work and training. He studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Krakow, Poland and resided in Paris 1913/1914. and in Prague in 1915. He was elected among “The 100 most prominent Serbs” by the Serbian Academy of Arts and Science. His portfolio of works includes: 981 oil paintings, 103 watercolors, 52 pastels, 676 drawings, 19 book illustrations, 94 sets, 8 published short stories and one in manuscript and 1 translation.