Exhibition Atelier at no. 19, September 12-25, 2022

Ismet Mujezinović
(Tuzla, BiH, 1907 – Tuzla, BiH, 1984)

Born in Tuzla in 1907. Graduated in 1929, from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and then specialised in the making of frescoes. In the period 1931-1933 he lived and worked in France. As early as 1941, he joined the National Liberation Struggle as soldier, painter-propagandist, reporter, actor and
director. He was one of the founders and first professor of the School of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, the Association of Fine Arts (ULUBIH), Bosna – film and Federation of Fine Arts of Yugoslavia (SLUJ). In 1953, he left Sarajevo and moved to Tuzla. He was coresponding member of the Zagreb based Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences (JAZU) and full member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of B&H. He recived the most prestigious SFRY and B&H recognitions and medals. In 1982, the special section – The Gallery of Ismet Mujezinović – was opened within the Gallery of Yugoslav Portraits in Tuzla. A retrospective exhibition of his was held in 1976 at the National Gallery of B&H in Sarajevo.

He used atelier in Street Ferhadija no. 19 from September 1945 utill the end of 1947.