Water Mill, watercolor, 30 x 44,5 cm, inv. no. 38 © National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Todor Švrakić

(Prijedor, BiH, 1882— Sarajevo, BiH, 1931)

Studied painting at the Serbian Drawing and Painting School with Risto Vukanovic in Belgrade (1900/04), then privately in Vienna (1904/05), from where together with Pero Popovic he went to the Prague Fine Arts Academy and studied in the class of Prof. Vlaho Bukovac and Frantisek Zenisek. Following a solo exhibition in Prijedor (1910), 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).