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Vladimir Veličković

Serbian painter (1935–2019)

Field	Value
name	Vladimir Veličković
Владимир Величковић
image	Velickovic Zarko-Vijatovic (cropped 2).jpg
caption	Veličković in his studio in 2016
birth_date
birth_place	Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
death_date
death_place	Split, Croatia
nationality	Yugoslavian / Serbian
alma_mater	University of Belgrade
occupation	Artist
awards	Herder Prize (1987)

Владимир Величковић Vladimir Veličković (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 Belgrade University. From 1963 to 1966, he was an assistant in Krsto Hegedušić's master workshop in Zagreb. In 1965, he was honoured with a prize at the Biennale in Paris, where he moved to the following year. Veličković gained public attention in 1967 with an exhibition at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris, which established him as one of the leading artists of the Narrative Figuration art movement. In 1983 he was elected professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and taught there until 2000. In 1985 he was elected a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and Honorable doctor of science at University of Kragujevac. He was honoured with the highest French award in the field of culture and arts, the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His paintings were exhibited in many countries in Europe and Americas since 1951.

Since 7 December 2005 he was a member of Académie des Beaux-Arts, section I, seat number 7.

In 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Selected exhibitions

Veličković had many solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and North America.

Slovenj Gradec – Koroška galerija, 2012.
Marseille – Galerie Anna-Tschopp, 2013.
Belgrade – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2013.
Belgrade – Zepter Muzej, 2013.
Colmar – Espace d'art contemporain André Malraux, 2013.
Rijeka – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2013.
Varna – Biennale internationale de l'Estampe, 2013.
Val d'Isère – Galerie Jane Griffiths, 2014.
Strasbourg – Galerie Nicole Buck, 2014.
Lyon – Galerie Anne-Marie et Roland Pallade, 2014.
Kragujevac – Galerie Rima, 2014.
Montréal – Centre d'art le 1700 La Poste, 2015.

References

Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Preminuo slikar Vladimir Veličković".
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XVGV5Z306SeDFzpdpUHhfeK-voAFdaakS48LqXfGozA/pubhtml Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language], official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
"1700 la Poste".

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