Milava Mica Todorović

Artist and founding member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia Herzegovina in 1945. Todorović was born in Sarajevo and completed her early studies there. In 1920 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, as the only female in her class. In 1926 and returned to Sarajevo only to travel to Italy a few years later to study Renaissance art. Her first exhibition was in England in 1930. During WW2 she survived a concentration camp and in 1945 she was the only artist to testify at the State Commission for the Establishment of War Crimes in Belgrade. Her series of drawings "The Last Victims of Jasenovac and Gradiška", depicting life in concentration camps, were used as evidence. She was the first woman to be a full member of the Bosnian Academy of Sciences & Arts, as a well as a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts.