Petar Dobrović

Petar Dobrović
A self-portrait from 1932
President of the Serbian-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic
In office August 14, 1921 (1921-08-14) – August 20, 1921 (1921-08-20)
Preceded by	office established
Succeeded by	office abolished
Personal details
Born	(1890-01-14)14 January 1890 Pécs, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 January 1942(1942-01-22) (aged 52) Belgrade, Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia
Nationality	Serbian
Relatives	Nikola Dobrović (brother)

Petar Dobrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Добровић; pronounced [pêtar dǒːbroʋitɕ]; 14 January 1890 – 27 January 1942) was a Serbian painter and politician.^[1]

Biography

Dobrović was born in Pécs, Kingdom of Hungary. A proponent of Serbian colorism, he was known for portraits and landscapes. He had earlier worked in impressionism and cubism.

He was briefly the President of a short-lived, small Serbian-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic in 1921, and later lived in Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

He died during the German occupation of Belgrade during the Second World War while in the elevator of the apartment building he lived in at 36 King Peter Street during a raid. He noticed the raid on the street and died while attempting to return to his flat. He is interred in the Belgrade New Cemetery.

Exhibitions

Solo

• 1912 Premises of the Women's Society, Pécs
• 1919 Salon "Ulrich", Zagreb, City Hall, Novi Sad
• 1920 Druga beogradska gimnazija, Belgrade
• 1921 Stanković Hall, Belgrade
• 1924 Salon Manes, Prague
• 1925 Salon Galic, Split
• 1927 Stock Exchange Building, Novi Sad
• 1928 Great Hall of the County, Sombor, Society for the Advancement of Science and Art, Hall of the National Casino, Osijek, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
• 1929 Art Salon Šira, Zagreb, Ceremonial Hall of the Novi Sad Music High School, Novi Sad
• 1930 Art Pavilion, Belgrade
• 1931 Pulhri Studio, Prague, Kunstring, Rotterdam, Kunstzalen A. Mak, Amsterdam
• 1932 Denisuv Institut, Prague
• 1933 French Club, Belgrade
• 1934 Salon Ulrich, Zagreb. French Club, Belgrade
• 1936 French Club, Belgrade
• 1937 Matica Srpska Hall, Novi Sad
• 1940 Art Pavilion, Belgrade

Posthumous

• 1955 Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić", Belgrade
• 1974 Museum of Contemporary Art, retrospective, Belgrade, Gallery "Petar Dobrović", Belgrade, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
• 1981 Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
• 1983 Petar Dobrović Gallery, Belgrade
• 1985 Gallery of Fine Arts, Belgrade
• 1990 Museum space, retrospective, Zagreb, Matica Srpska Gallery, Novi Sad, National Museum, Belgrade, Museum Janus Panonius, Pécs
• 1999 Petar Dobrović Gallery, Belgrade, Matica Srpska Gallery, Novi Sad
• 2001 Petar Dobrović Gallery, Belgrade

Gallery

• 
  Study for a portrait (1917), Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery
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  Girl's head (1917), National Gallery of Slovenia
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  Figure (1927), Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection
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  Škarpina (1928), Gallery of Fine Arts, Split
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  Svetozar Miletić, 1930
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  Landscape with Cypresses, Dalmatia (1931), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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  Mlini na jugu (1936)
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  Portrait of Olga Dobrović (1938)

See also

• List of Serbian painters

Notes

References

• Mangold, Max (2005), Das Aussprachewörterbuch, Duden, ISBN 978-3-411-04066-7

External links

• Petar Dobrović
• Fine Arts in Hungary
• Webpage with Dobrović's works