Jefto Perić
Serbian painter (b. 1895, d. 1967)
Jefto Perić (Gacko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of the Ottoman Empire, 26 December 1895 – Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 31 March 1967) was a Serbian painter and professor at the Academy of Arts (later to become University of Arts in Belgrade. He is a significant representative of colored realism in Serbian art. Also, he was instrumental in choosing the art in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection.
Biography
As a young high school graduate, Jefto Perić went to work as a photographer’s assistant in the studio of Mihailo Merćep in Zagreb. There Perić decided that painting was a career for him. He first attended the Arts and Crafts College, and then at various private art academies in Zagreb where he learned to hone his craft. In Munich his art teachers were Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl (1856-1925) and Hans Hoffmann, and in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, where his mentor was Paul Signac. He copied the works of the great masters in the Louvre, where he attained superior artistic skills.
It was in Paris that he met Pavle Beljanski and numerous other distinguished Serbian intellectuals from all walks of life.
Perić struck a friendship with Beljanski that was to last until the death of the art collector.
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