Lazar Drljača

Lazar Drljača

Lazar Drljača (10 October 1882 – 13 July 1970) was a Yugoslav-Bosnian painter. Born in Blatna, he was initially an expressionist,^[1] but turned to impressionism.^[2]

He passed his examination for Fine Arts in Vienna in October 1906, and in 1911 was invited to participate in the International Exhibition in Rome, after which he moved to Paris to attend art school, and worked in the Louvre copying the old masters, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes to commission. From July 9, 1914 to 1919 little is known about his life but a note on a picture records that he was interned in a camp in Sardinia.

Works

• Three Horsemen
• The cabin of the painter, Blatina, October 1929, watercolor, 205 x 225

Three horsemen in Bosnia, Paris 1917.^[3]

References

1. Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette Bosnie-Herzégovine 2008 Page 66 - "Lazar Drljača (1883-1970) est un artiste expressionniste rare"
2. The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila Blair - 2009 "Milenko Atanacković (1875–1955) became a naive artist, Atanasije Popović (1881– 1948) chose pleinairisme, while Lazar Drljača (1881–1970) turned to Impressionism. Djoko Mazalić (1888–1975) dedicated himself to formal Expressionism ..."
3. The Art treasures of Bosnia and Herzegovina Đuro Basler, Mirza Filipović, Sulejman Balić - 1987 " Lazar Drljaca (1881-1970) executed the Impressionist Three Horsemen (Fine Arts Gallery of BH), and between the wars he painted ..."