Kosta Miličević

Kosta Miličević
Self-portrait
Born	3 June 1877 Vrakë, Ottoman Albania
Died	12 February 1920 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Nationality	Serbian
Known for	Painting
Movement	Impressionism

Kosta Miličević (Serbian Cyrillic: Коста Миличевић; 3 June 1877 – 12 February 1920) was a Serbian Impressionist painter, known mostly for his landscapes.

Biography

Landscape of Corfu, 1918

Potamós, on Corfu

Kosta Miličević was born to a clerical family, with a history of service in the priesthood. As a young man, he went to Belgrade, where he studied with Kiril Kutlik who operated a famous painting school. He continued his training, under difficult financial conditions, in Prague, Vienna, where he worked with the portrait painter, Heinrich Streblow (1862-1925) and Munich. Until 1910, he was an informal student at the arts and crafts school of Rista and Beta Vukanović. That same year, he became a member of Lada, an art association.

In his early period, he painted in the Academic style, as taught in Germany, then was attracted to Art Nouveau. After becoming acquainted with the works of Nadežda Petrović and Milan Milovanović, he sought to create a more personal style. He finally settled on a free, Impressionistic approach, brought to fruition during a stay at an artists' colony in Savinac (now part of Belgrade). His first success came at the Fourth Yugoslav Art Exhibition of 1912.

He was inducted into the army during World War I, briefly served as a soldier, then became an official War Painter for the Supreme Command in Corfu. Only five paintings are known to have survived from this period.

After the war, he taught evening classes at the Vukanovic's arts and crafts school. His early death was probably due to tuberculosis.

See also

• List of Serbian painters
• Serbo-Montenegrins in Albania

Further reading

• Protić, Miodrag B. (1970). Serbian painting of the 20th century, Volume 1 - Synthesis Library, YU-Belgrade: Nolit.
• Trifunovic, Lazar (1973). Serbian painting 1900–1950. - Synthesis Library, YU-Belgrade: Nolit. pp. 533 et seq.

External links

• Коста Миличевић @ Spomen-zbirka Pavla Beljanskog
• Коста Миличевић (-{arte.rs}-)
• Импресивни трагизам – Коста Миличевић (1877-1920) in Avant Art Magazin, 3 August 2016
• Brief biography @ Srpski Legat