2023150th Anniversary of the birth of Nadezda Petrovic - First Day Cover

Nadežda Petrović (Čačak, October 11, 1873 – military hospital near Valjevo, April 3, 1915) comes from distinguished families important for Serbian history. Educated as a painter in Belgrade under Đorđe Krstić and Kiril Kutlik, and then in Munich under Anton Ažbe and Julius Exter, she was a pioneer of modern art, a drawing teacher at the Higher Women’s School in Belgrade, an art critic, the author of a theatre play, one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, the Serbian Art Association and the Paris League for the National Rights of Oppressed Peoples, the first Serbian woman to be engaged in photography. She organized the work (1905) and exhibition (1907) of the Yugoslav Art Colony.