Šain Petar

(Mostar, B&H, 1885 – Sarajevo, B&H, 1965)

Trained in the lithographyic craft at the studio of Rožnakovski in Zagreb (1900-1903), and then spent two years at the Graphic Institute in Vienna. Also lived in Munich (1904/05), then in the studio of A. Mucha in Paris (1905/06) and afterwards worked as a drawer at the Geographical Institute in Vienna (1906-1909). From 1909 to 1913, he studied sculpting and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. During the World War I, he was mobilized as a military painter/reporter. He is the most important animalist in the history of arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He worked as a professor of the Secondary Technical School and the School for Applied Arts in Sarajevo. His retrospective exhibition was opened in March 1989 at the National Gallery of BiH in Sarajevo.