Vera Božičković-Popović

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Vera Božičković-Popović
Вера Божичковић Поповић Edit this on Wikidata
BornMay 8, 1920 Edit this on Wikidata
Brčko Edit this on Wikidata
DiedMarch 6, 2002 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 81)
Belgrade Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Mića Popović Edit this on Wikidata

Vera Božičković-Popović (May 8, 1920 – March 6, 2002) was a Yugoslavian abstract painter.

Vera Božičković was born on May 8, 1920 in Brčko, Yugoslavia, now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

She studied under Marko Čelebonović at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduating in 1949. The same year she married painter Miča Popović. The Popovićs and others including Petar Omčikus, Kosara Bokšan, Bata Mihailović, and Ljubinka Jovanović had relocated to Zadar briefly in 1947 and formed the Zadar Group of painters. [1] In the 1950s, Vera Božičković-Popović worked in a style called informalism, creating roughly textured and heavily abstract paintings. [2]

The Popovićs apartment and studio in Belgrade was the site of the first Yugoslavian performance of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1954.[3]

Vera Božičković-Popović died on 6 March 2002 in Belgrade.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Tanjug (2022-07-15). "Narodni muzej Srbije kupuje sliku Vere Božičković Popović za 8.000 evra". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  2. ^ Fowkes, Maja; Fowkes, Reuben (2020-04-14). Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (World of Art). Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-77535-6.
  3. ^ Jakovljević, Branislav (2016). Alienation effects: performance and self-management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05314-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)