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

Todor Švrakić
(Prijedor, BiH, 1882 – Sarajevo, BiH, 1931)

He received his first painting lessons when he was 16 years old at Risto and Beta Vukanović's painting School in Belgrade. As a scholarship holder at Association „Prosvjeta“ in 1904, he signed up for the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where he studied a general course conducted by artist Vlaho Bukovac. By 1910 he finished a painting specialisation course conducted by artist František Ženíšek. He spent some time in Vienna, and then opened a private painting school in Sarajevo (1911), first of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Serbian-Bulgarian War (1913), he painted liberated areas in Southern Serbia. After the outbreak of World War 1, he was imprisoned in Arad (1914/15).

He worked as a drawing teacher in Tuzla and Sarajevo.

He had solo exhibitions in Belgrade (1913 and 1971), Sarajevo (1919, 1920, 1923, 1969), Novi Sad (1919), and Sombor (1919, 1922, 1923).

He used atelier in Street Ferhadija no. 19 from 1919 to 1929