Ismet Mujezinović, Mother, oil on canvas, 162 x 108 cm, inv. no. 414, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ismet Mujezinović

(Tuzla, BiH, 1907 – Tuzla, BiH, 1984)

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 in 1941, he joined the National Liberation Struggle, as a soldier, painter-propagandist, reporter, actor and director. He was one of the founders and first professors of the School of Arts in Sarajevo, the association of fine arts – ULUBiH, Bosna–film and the Federation of Fine Arts of Yugoslavia. In 1953, he left Sarajevo and moved to Tuzla. He was a corresponding member of the Zagrebbased Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences (JAZU), and the full member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of BiH. He received the most prestigious SFRY and BiH recognitions and medals. In 1982, the special section – the Gallery of Ismet Mujezinović – was opened within the Gallery of Yugoslav Portraits in Tuzla. His retrospective exhibition was held in 1976 at the National Gallery of BiH u Sarajevo.