2. Nadežda Petrović was a Serbian painter from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Considered Serbia's most famous impressionist and fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter of the period. Born in the town of Čačak, Petrovic moved to Belgrade in her youth and attended the women's school of higher education there.

3. Graduating in 1891, she taught there for a period beginning in 1893 before moving to Munich to study with Slovenian artist Anton Ažbe. Between 1901 and 1912, she exhibited her work in many cities throughout Europe

4. Nadežda Petrović was born in Čačak, Principality of Serbia on 11 or 12 October 1873 to Dimitrije and Mileva Petrović. Her father taught art and literature and was fond of collecting artworks. He later worked as a tax collector and wrote about painting. Her mother Mileva was a school teacher and a relative of prominent Serbian politician Svetozar Miletić. Petrović's father later found work in finance and politics. In the Forest Summer Day

5. He fell ill in the late 1870s, forcing the family to move to the town of Karanovac (modern Kraljevo) before their eventual relocation to Belgrade in 1884. Here, they lived in the home of Petrovic's grandfather, Maksim. The home in which they lived was later destroyed by the Luftwaffe during World War II. The Turkish Bridge Pogreb u Sicevu 1905.

6. Nadezda drwaing a portret of her aunt

7. In the later years of her life, Petrović had little time to paint and produced only a few works. In 1912, she volunteered to become a nurse following the outbreak of the Balkan Wars. She continued nursing Serbian soldiers until 1913, when she contracted typhus and cholera. Old Prizren La Moisson 1902.

8. She earned a Medal for Bravery and an Order of the Red Cross for her efforts. With the outbreak of World War I she again volunteered to become a nurse with the Serbian Army, eventually dying of typhus on 3 April 1915 Resnik 1904 Kosovo peonies 1913.

9. Nadezda’s work Ship down the Sava 1900. Bavarian Wearing a Hat 1900.

10. Velikafa 1905. Gračanica 1913.