RADULOVIĆ Branko

(Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1885 – Skoplje, Macedonia, 1916)

He attended the Serbian drawing and painting school from 1903 to 1905, and as a scholar of Prosvjeta he also studied at the Academy in Prague from 1906 to 1911 in the class of professors Vlaho Bukovac and František Ženíšek. After his studies he spent time in Paris.

Bukovac had made significant influence on the formation of Radulović’s style, most evident in his palette. Before the special course with Ženíšek, Branko Radulović, along with Todor Švrakić and Pero Popović organized an exhibition of his school studies in Sarajevo in 1907. This event marked the beginning of local art and serious art criticism in our art history.

Radulović’s first works are distinguished by academic realism which quickly gave way to impressionism. His rather small collection of works is characterized by pronounced sensitivity and poetry, and a refined and harmonious color palette. He mastered these characteristics first in the form of a portrait, because his first landscapes were based on sketches done in the studio. However, under the influence of Ženišek, he slowly liberated himself and turned to plein air. At first he sketched through the window of his apartment in the attic. In later years, he took advantage of the sun bathed Mostar by painting outdoors.