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Nadežda Petrović

1873 - 1915

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Nadežda Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Надежда Петровић; 11/12 October 1873 – 3 April 1915) was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter of the period. Born in the town of Čačak, Petrović moved to Belgrade in her youth and attended the women's school of higher education there. Graduating in 1891, she taught there for a period beginning in 1893 before moving to Munich to study with Slovenian artist Anton Ažbe. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadežda Petrović is the 589th most popular painter (down from 577th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Serbia (down from 87th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nadežda Petrović ranks 589 out of 2,023. Before her are Jacques Lipchitz, Boris Kustodiev, Paris Bordone, Santiago Rusiñol, Théophile Steinlen, and Edward Steichen. After her are Barthélemy d'Eyck, Pierre Alechinsky, Nicolaes Maes, Nikolaos Gyzis, Constant Troyon, and Agostino Tassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Nadežda Petrović ranks 56. Before her are Hugo Simberg, Margaret Bondfield, Ray Ewry, Liang Qichao, Thorvald Stauning, and Otto Wels. After her are Viktor Chernov, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Adolph Zukor, Theodor Körner, Ma Barker, and Melitta Bentz. Among people deceased in 1915, Nadežda Petrović ranks 25. Before her are Joe Hill, Anton von Werner, Karl Goldmark, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, William Wallace Denslow, and Saitō Hajime. After her are Remy de Gourmont, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Adèle Hugo, Konstantin Makovsky, Edith Cavell, and Julius von Payer.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Nadežda Petrović ranks 92 out of 661. Before her are Stefan Branković (1417), Paul Abraham (1892), Ivo Pogorelić (1958), Miloš Milutinović (1933), Šaban Šaulić (1951), and Željko Obradović (1960). After her are Rajko Mitić (1922), Borislav Ivkov (1933), Dušan Ivković (1943), Nikolaj Velimirović (1880), Miki Manojlović (1950), and Beba Lončar (1943).

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Among PAINTERS In Serbia

Among painters born in Serbia, Nadežda Petrović ranks 1. After her are Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909), Mór Than (1828), Uroš Predić (1857), Paja Jovanović (1859), and Olja Ivanjicki (1931).

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