Živorad Nastasijević

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Živorad Nastasijević (Belgrade, September 1893 - Belgrade, 1966) was a Serbian painter, fresco painter and iconographer. Živorad Nastasijević has finished art school in Belgrade in 1910, as a student of Đoka Jovanović, Rista Vukanović and Marko Murat. He continued with the painting studies in Munich with Professor Grabar 1913-1914. but had to discontinue due to the outbreak of the First World War. In 1927, together with Vasa Pomorišac was the initiator and founder of the artist group "Zograf", which is supposed to represent some sort of opposition to progressive and modernist-oriented group "The shape." The artists who were members of the "Zograf" argued for recognition of medieval art and building national style based on medieval heritage and tradition. He died in Belgrade in 1966.

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