Nedeljko Gvozdenović

Painter and academic of world renown. He is considered to be the greatest representative of the Belgrade School of Painting. He was born in Mostar but left for Munich in 1922 and enrolled in the International School with Professor Hanz Hoffmann. After graduating in 1926 he returned to Belgrade serving as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He held major exhibitions in Paris (1937), Venice (1952), Tokyo (1957), and New York (1963). He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the founder of the House of Legacies as a special cultural institution that takes care of the legacies donated to the Museum of the City of Belgrade.