Svetomir Arsić-Basara (; 15 May 1928 – 10 May 2024) was a Serbian writer and sculptor.

Biography

Born in Sevce on 15 May 1928, Arsić-Basara attended secondary school in

Kosovska Mitrovica Mitrovica (Albanian language, Albanian Definiteness, indefinite Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Mitrovicë''; sr-Cyrl, Митровица, Mitrovica), also referred to as Kosovska Mitrovica ( sr-Cyrl, Косовска Митр� ...

. In 1953, he was admitted to the Academic of Applied Arts, from where he graduated in March 1958. In 1962, he began teaching sculpture and plastic arts in

Pristina Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and District of Pristina, district. In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdo ...

. From 1973 to 1995, he taught in the sculpture department at the Academy of Arts of Pristina. In 1958, Arsić-Basara opened an artist colony in Dečani. In 2000, a symposium on his works was held at the Institute for Serbian Culture Pristina -

Leposavić Leposavić ( sr-Cyrl, Лепосавић, ), also known as Leposaviq or Albanik ( sq-definite, Leposaviqi or ''Albaniku''), is a town and the northernmost municipality in the District of Mitrovica, Mitrovica District in Kosovo. As of 2015, it has ...

. Additionally, he authored studies on sculpture, literary criticism, and short stories. Svetomir Arsić-Basara died in

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

on 10 May 2024, at the age of 95.

References

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