This is Branko Radulović

Branko Radulović (1881–1916) was a Serbian painter. At the turn of the 20th century there emerged on the Belgrade art scene the first help of modern-day, academically-trained painters in Bosnia and Hercegovina — Branko Radulović, Djordje Mihajlović,Gabriel Jurkić, Todor Švrakić, Petar Tiješić, Karlo Mijić, Djordje Mazalić, Jovan Bijelić, and Roman Petrović — among them Branko Radulovićwho it is said showed “exceptional culture and promise,” though his enthusiasm was clip short in the middle of the Great War.

Radulović using his delicate colour palette upon small formats breathed the first whiff of Impressionist painting into Bosnian and Herzegovinian history of art. As a painter of indulgent nature, an sprightly participant in the diplomatic life and a good connoisseur of music, he announced the arrival of militant art in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia subsequent to his rather small but vital opus of artworks.

Although the painter Branko Radulović rounded a cycle which stands at the summit of the contemporary Serbian painting for only thirty years of energy and ten years of creative work, it hasn’t been written much nearly the player and today his works are scattered and poorly researched, mostly due to the negligence of profession. He was born upon May 26, 1885, in Mostar, where he completed his primary and several years of auxiliary education which he continued in Belgrade. There he utterly decided to go in for painting and the first step in this regard was made upon 9 September in 1903 by entering the Serbian Drawing and Painting School tell Beta Vukanović and Rista Vukanović.Branko shortly accepted academic painting style of Vukanović and in the same year created “A Portrait of Andja Golubović”, and in the style of Beta Vukanović, he worked upon silk small lyrical nevertheless lives.

Diploma of the Vukanović’s theoretical from February 1905 was a guidance to continue his studies at an academy of fine arts in of the European art capitals. As he was late subsequent to enrolment in the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Branko attended the private Painting School of Karel Reisner (1868-1913) which claimed to be a sort of preparatory course for admittance to the Academy of Fine Arts.

In the autumn of the taking into consideration year, he was at the Academy, in the class of Vlaho Bukovac, where he met two additional artists, Pero Popović (1881-1941) and Todor Švrakić, with whom in September 1907 he went upon to exhibit in Sarajevo in the first exhibition of local academy-trained artists. Branko Radulović painted in a pointillist style, like that of his professor Bukovac,not without help during studies in his class but even in 1907 past he moved in the thesame academy to the special class of professor František Ženíšek. A painting called “A Girl past a Book” from 1908 testifies more or less it. Soon Branko Radulović freed his painting from pointillist “colored” dots and shorter and longer brushstrokes and took en plein air characteristics, as a girl “In a Walk” was painted in 1911. Departure, moving to Paris at the beginning of 1912 later the invitation of our painter Lazar Drljaca following whom he shared the apartment and studio, marked the most important turning dwindling in the handwriting of the painter Radulović.

It is quite positive that Branko Radulović would further transform his trip out in Paris in accordance later than the current European art if he didn’t set himself one important task – a patriotic one. The echo of the Sarajevo assassination in 1914 traveled whatever the habit to Paris, from where Radulović, for the second times would make his exaggeration to the front – firstly he participated in the Balkan wars and then in World War I, where he was killed in 1916.