Olja (Olga) Ivanjicki ( sr-Cyrl, Оља Ивањицки; 10 May 1931, in

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– 24 June 2009, in

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) was a

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n painter, sculptor and poet.

Life, work and awards

Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of

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was born in Pančevo,

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. She studied at the

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in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an

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of painters, writers and architects such as

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Vladimir Veličković Vladimir Veličković ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Величковић; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter who spent much of his adult life in Paris. Biography Veličković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Be ...

Ljubomir Popović Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović (14 October 1934 – 12 August 2016) was a Serbian surrealist painter. He is renowned for his many erotic and unconventionally juxtaposed subject matters. Biography Born in Tuzla, Bosnia, Popović studied Fine Arts i ...

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. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the

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to pursue her art studies in the

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, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the

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''Artist in Residence'' at the

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. She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by

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, Pop art and

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. In the course of her career, the artist received the

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Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karić Award.

Bibliography (selection)

*''Večni uslov – poezija'' (Eternal Condition - Poetry), Novosti, Belgrade 2008, . *''Painting the Future'', Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2009, .Olga Ivanjicki i
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References

External links

Official Website b
Olga Ivanjicki Foundation
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