Miloš Bajić (painter)
Serbian painter and Nazi concentration camp survivor
Miloš Bajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Бајић; 1915–1995) was a Serbian Modernist painter, who is considered to be the founder of abstract painting in Yugoslavia.
Early life
Miloš Bajić was born in 1915 in Resanovci, a village in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 1922, Bajić moved to Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia (now Serbia), where he completed grammar school and teacher school. As a student, he published illustrations and caricatures in the daily Politika and satirical magazine Ošišani jež. In 1935, Bajić became one of Petar Dobrović's students, finishing his first year in Beta Vukanović's class at the Belgrade School of Arts in 1937.
World War II
After Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in 1941, Bajić joined the Partisans, Yugoslav anti-Nazi resistance movement. Occupying forces captured him in Belgrade in October 1942 and imprisoned him in Banjica Concentration Camp. In September 1944, he was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp.
While in detention, Bajić captured the scenes from prison life as drawings. and later said about his work:
"In the concentration camp, drawing was my way of daring fate.
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