PETAR LUBARDA "KRAGUJEVAC 1941"
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Petar Lubarda was born on July 27th 1907. in Ljubotinje, Republic of Montenegro. He enrolled in Art School in Belgrade in 1925. From 1926. to 1932. he lived in Paris and for a short while studied at Académie des Beaux-Arts. He returned to Belgrade and stayed there until 1938., when he went back to Paris for the following two years. Between the Wars he exhibited in Paris, Rome, Belgrade and The Hague. He spent war years in Germany as a prisoner of war. From 1947. to 1950. he lived in Cetinje, and from that point on in Belgrade, where he spent the remainder of his days. In May 1951. he organised an independent exhibition in ULUS gallery, thus signifying the turning point in entire post-war art in Serbia. He won many prizes and awards:
I prize on International Exhibition in The Hague
Grand prix on 1st International Exhibition in Paris
Grand prix at Biennial Exhibition in Saint Paulo
I prize at 3rd Biennial Exhibition in Tokyo
Guggenheim Award
Art association Rabindranath Tagore Award, Calcutta
Herder Award
He was a regular member of SANU and associate Member of JAZU.
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Petar Lubarda bequeathed his series of paintings “Kragujevac 1941” to Memorial park in 1969. and left in his own handwritten last will and testament emphasising that paintings should never depart from Kragujevac. Since 1976., the year when Museum was opened, the series became part of his permanent exhibition. Collection consists of 27 paintings of different sizes, from smaller 35x28 cm format to monumental 140x230 cm, done in various techniques: from tempera to oil to acrylic to casein and car paint, as well as combined techniques. They had been painted between 1966. and 1968. and represent associative and abstract view of tragic execution in Kragujevac, raised at higher level of universal thought about drama of living in tragic relation to destruction and death. According to evaluations made by our eminent art theoreticians, the collection represents one of the best Lubarda’s works and certainly the best achievement in last period of his creative work. Petar Lubard died on February 13th 1974. in Belgrade. |
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