Lazar Drljača
Today we want to present to you the painting created by the Serbian painter from Bosnia and Herzegovina who was an uncle of one of our users. Lazar Drljača was born in 1882 in Bosanska Krupa and died in Konjic. He was initially an expressionist, but turned to impressionism.
He passed his examination for Fine Arts in Vienna in October 1906, and in 1911 was invited to participate in the International Exhibition in Rome, after which he moved to Paris to attend art school. He also worked in the Louvre copying the old masters, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes on commission. He lived on the same street as Amadeo Modigliani, and he exhibited together with him as well with Pablo Picasso, among others.
From July 9, 1914, to 1919 little is known about his life but a note on a picture records that he was interned in a camp in Sardinia. Just before World War II, sometime around 1935, he returned to Bosnia for good and settled in the village of Borci.
Matija, thank you for sharing this great story with us!