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Nevenka Đorđević - Tomašević
1899.
1975.
Education:
With Ljubo Babić, (Zagreb, from 1915) W.Jackel and Alexander Archipenko, (Berlin, 1916-1921)
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, 1916-1921
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| Biography: As the only child of a wealthy goldsmith family, she spent five years in a Roman Catholic convent school in her birthplace in Romania, where she started painting. Eager to have a more systematic arts education, she came to Zagreb at the age of sixteen. After a preparatory period with Ljubo Babić, she became a full time student of the College from 1.10.1916. After completing her studies in 1921, she spent two years in Berlin with her future husband Ernest Tomašević in order to supplement her arts education. On her return to Zagreb, from 1924, she intensively engaged in ceramics in the class of Hinko Juhn. She married Ernest Tomašević in 1926. In the first days after the Second World War she was deeply shaken by learning how her mother was killed, namely, when the Soviet "liberators of the proletariat" came to Veliki Mikloš, they captured all the well-off citizens, including her widowed mother, and lined them up in a meadow. Each of the "capitalists" had to dig a grave. They shot the first line, and the "bourgeois" from the second line had to bury them. Nevenka suffered from this news until she died of Alzheimers disease. |
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