Nedeljko Gvozdenović - Paintings (1902 - 1988)

Nedeljko Gvozdenović (Mostar, February 24, 1902 - Belgrade, January 31, 1988) was a Serbian painter and academician of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. The motifs that Gvozdenović dealt with were still lifes, landscapes and interiors.

Biography
He went to Munich in 1922 and entered the International School with Professor Hanz Hoffman, and after completing his studies in 1926 he returned to Belgrade. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Together with several of his colleagues and students at the time, some of whom are now academics, he initiated the establishment of the House of Legates as a special cultural institution that would take care of the legacies donated to the Museum of the City of Belgrade.

The painter Nedeljko Gvozdenović bequeathed to the Museum a large number of his works in various techniques - oils, gouache, tempera, watercolors and drawings, his apartment with a studio, an ideal third of the house in Belgrade and a certain amount of money to equip the gallery where his works will be exhibited. The City of Belgrade entrusted the legacy of Nedeljko Gvozdenović to the City Museum for care and public display in 1983, when the Gvozdenović Gallery was officially opened.

He exhibited in Paris, 1937, Venice, 1952, Tokyo, 1957, and Brooklyn, 1963.

He was buried in the Alley of meritorious citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.

One street on Bežanija Kosa bears his name.