Zora Petrović

Zora Petrović was born on May 17, 1894 in Dobrica.
She was a Serbian painter who is considered one of the most important representatives of expressionism in Serbian painting between the two wars.
She attended high school in Pančevo from 1907 to 1909.
She enrolled at the School of Arts and Crafts in Belgrade in 1912-1914. where she was taught by Milan Milovanović, Đorđe Jovanović and Marko Murat. She studied painting in Pest under Professor Deak-Ebner, and participated in Professor Reti’s courses in the so-called “Barbizon in Nađbanja”.
During the period from 1915 to 1919, he studied at the Royal Hungarian National School of Painting under Professor Lajos Deak Ebner.
She returned to Belgrade in 1919, when she graduated from the Arts and Crafts School of Painting with professor Ljuba Ivanović and was employed as a teacher at Realca in Belgrade, and from 1921 to 1944 she taught at the Second Women’s High School ‘Kraljica Natalija’.
To Paris in 1925-1926. resides in Andre Lot’s studio for a year.
She worked first as a drawing teacher, and at the Painting School of Mladen Josić as a part-time professor of painting from 1942 to 1944.
In 1952, she got a job as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and worked there for the rest of her life.
She died in Belgrade on May 25, 1962 and was buried in Pančevo.