Sava Šumanović

Sava Šumanović studied at Zemun Gymnasium. The recorded working language is Serbian. Work by Sava Šumanović is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Serbia, Sava Šumanović Art Gallery, National Museum of Kragujevac, Тhe Gallery of Matica srpska and Belgrade City Museum.

• Name — Sava Šumanović • Native Name — Сава Шумановић • Born — 22 January 1896 • Birthplace — Vinkovci, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary • Died — 30 August 1942 • Place of death — Hrvatska Mitrovica, Independent State of Croatia • Death Cause — Killed by the Ustaše • Education — College of Crafts and Arts, Zagreb • Movement — Original artistic expression

• Illustration — Sava Šumanović as a child Sava Šumanović was born in Vinkovci, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia) in 1896, the only child of mother Persida Šumanović (née Tubić) and father Milutin Šumanović, who worked as an engineer. The Šumanovićs were a rich and influential family, who were recorded in Šid as of the 18th century.[5] When Šumanović was four years old his family moved to Šid (modern-day Serbia). He graduated from the Zemun Gymnasium,[6] where he was first introduced to the art of painting and the work of artists like Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.[7] He later enrolled in the College of Crafts and Arts in Zagreb[8] and soon after he lived in Paris for several years, since 1920. His professor in Paris was André Lhote.[9] Šumanović befriended Amedeo Modigliani, Max Jacob and various Paris-based Serbian artists and writers such as Rastko Petrović.[10] In 1924 Šumanović wrote two notable essays: Slikar o slikarstvu and Zašto volim Pusenovo slikarstvo.[11][12] Living for a couple of years in Croatia, Šumanović returned to Paris in late 1925, and stayed again for several years, accepting certain influences of the Matisse painting style. In 1927 he produced some of his best known works, including Pijana ladja (Drunken boat) and Doručak na travi (Luncheon on the grass). Šumanović returned to Šid in 1928 and after another year spent in Paris,[13] eventually settled there in 1930.[14] His major exhibition was at the Belgrade New University in 1939, where he exhibited roughly 410 paintings, mostly from the Šid period. It was his first major success after many years. He lived quietly in Šid until the outbreak of World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, when the Nazi puppet state Independent State of Croatia, led by the Croatian fascist Ustaše, occupied Syrmia and began a genocidal campaign against Serbs, Jews, and Romani people. When the Independent State of Croatia upon its establishment banned usage of Serbian Cyrillic, Šumanović stopped signing pictures and only put the year. Ustaše police arrested Šumanović together with 150 Serbian citizens and took them to a concentration camp in Hrvatska Mitrovica (today Sremska Mitrovica). Šumanović was executed there on 30 August 1942, together with many other Serbs, and buried in a common grave in a Serbian Orthodox graveyard.[15]

His early artistic style was characterized by various influences, mainly Cubism but Fauvism and Expressionism as well. In his later works, Sava Šumanović managed to develop his own, rather original artistic expression, which he simply called "the way I know and can." Due to innovations and unique style, Šumanović can be described as one of the most prominent Serbian painters of the twentieth century as well as a major painter from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[16]

• Illustration — Šumanović's house in Šid • Illustration — Šumanović's house in Šid • Illustration — Selfportrait (1925) • Illustration — Akt u enterijeru (1926) • Illustration — Pijana lađa (1927) • Illustration — Love from Paris (1927) • Illustration — Luncheon on the Grass (1927) • Illustration — Morning (1929) • Illustration — Bar u Parizu (1929) • Illustration — Seoska kuća (1932) • Illustration — Proleće u šidskim baštama (1934) • Illustration — Pred proleće (1934) • Illustration — Half-lying female nude on the couch (1934) • Illustration — Ženski akt u crvenoj fotelji (1934) • Illustration — Šid under Snow (1935) • Illustration — Elm (1939)

Sava Šumanović is recorded as painter. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Sava Sumanovic, Sava Choumanovitch, Sava Šumanovic, Sava Šumanovič and Sava Chumanovitch. His recorded language was Serbian. He was the child of Persida Šumanović.