Predrag Peđa Milosavljević (1908-1989)
Peđa Milosavljević (born near Kragujevac, Serbia in 1908) was a painter, lawyer, diplomat, dramaturge and member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studied painting in class of professor Jovan Bijelić and in Paris.
As a lawyer Milosavljević spent several years in the diplomatic service in Paris, Madrid and London.As a writer he wrote articles about art which were published in “Artistic review”. In addition to the book of essays “Between the horns and tranquility,” he wrote several plays, including the famous “Zopyrus ” in 1966.As a painter, he was a member of the group “Th Twelve” and “The Six”. He became a regular member of the SASA in 1976.
Milosavljević has won a number of local awards and acknowledgements. He even won the Grand Prix for Painting at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937. He had never bowed to any of various trends in contemporary art, but developed his own style called “style of man.” In his book he described color as “tissue, blood and body of painting”. Milosavljević transposed everything he was interested in as an artist – from Parisian rooftops and Dubrovnik to academy figures, nudes and animals and also his attitude towars the social reality.Pedja Milosavljević is an example of Renaissance man as it is rarely seen in our countries, with an attitude that he did not hide for the sake of self-interest.
He died in Belgrade in 1989.