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Olja ivanjicki in memorijam 10 05 1931g 24 06 2009g
Olja (Olga) Ivanjicki (Serbian Cyrillic: Оља Ивањицки; 10 May 1931, Pančevo – 24 June 2009, Belgrade) was a famous Serbian painter, sculptor, poet and one of the most popular Yugoslav artists of the 20th century.
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- Olja ivanjicki in memorijam 10 05 1931g 24 06 2009g
- Olja ivanjicki 1931 2009
- Life work and awards
- References
Olja ivanjicki 1931 2009
Life, work and awards
Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in Pančevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid Šejka, Vladimir Veličković, Ljubomir Popović, Miodrag Đurić and some other personalities. In 1962, she granted a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Her works are found in many museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received some awards, including the important Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karić Award.
