Lecture Series ‘From Munich to Belgrade – Beta Vukanović’s Art World’

The final lecture in the series ‘‘Serbian Women Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (The Period of Establishment)’ titled ‘From Munich to Belgrade – Beta Vukanović’s Art World’ will be delivered by Isidora Savić, PhD, on Wednesday, 1 April, at the SASA Grand Hall, at 12 o’clock.

Painter Beta Vukanović (née Babette Bachmayer, 1872–1972), a member of the early generations of Serbian modernists, left a lasting mark on the Serbian art scene of the first half of the 20th century through her rich and diverse body of work.

Born in the Bavarian town of Bamberg, educated in Munich (1881-1897), Babette Bachmayer married painter Rista Vukanović, changed her name to Beta Vukanović and permanently settled in Belgrade in 1898. Coming from Munich, she became one of the founders of plein air painting and moderate impressionism on the Serbian and Yugoslav painting scene. Having created for more than seven decades in Belgrade, Vukanović developed a multilayered artwork, based on thematic pluralism but also on multimedia. Her artistic world focused on portraits, oriental and folklore themes, landscapes, as well as caricature, in which she emerged as a pioneering figure on the Serbian art scene.