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 Ekster, she was a leader of modern art, a drawing teacher at the Higher Women’s School in Belgrade, an art critic, the author of a theater play, one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters , of the Serbian Art Association and the Paris League for the National Rights of Oppressed Peoples, the first Serbian woman who was engaged in photography. She organized the work (1905) and exhibition (1907) of the Yugoslav Art Colony.

She stayed in Rome (1907) and Paris (1910-1912), followed the Venice Biennale and other prestigious art exhibitions in Europe. She exhibited independently and at joint art fairs in our country and around the world. She brought aid to peoples under Turkish occupation and led protests against the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908). She spoke about the rights of Serbs and other enslaved Slavic peoples at meetings in our country and, thanks to her knowledge of French, German and Russian, in the world. She was a volunteer nurse in the Balkan Wars and the First World War. She reached the top in everything that  passionately taught. Her works are the pride of our most prestigious museums, galleries and private collections. It belongs to the movements of Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Expressionism, Impressionism and Fauvism, and in a certain way abstraction. Educated and gifted, with clearly expressed views of an artist, intellectual and humanist, she managed to remain herself and belong to everyone. 

That our sorrow over the bad fate of Nadežda Petrović, an unsurpassed painter and unsurpassed patriot, that is, over the fact that she died in the tension of her creative powers, be greater, and for the Serbian history of art an irreparable loss, this selection of paintings, which the Post of Serbia marks 150 years since her birth. Because they are masterpieces in every respect, executed in an impressive drawing style, colorfully ringing, pictorially juicy, expressionistically strong and convincing, with strokes that, with their immediacy, freedom and freshness, confirm the artist who poured her soul into her work.

Motifs on stamps: Red house in the countryside (1907); Facade of the Church of St. Mark in Venice (1914); Red Peonies (1913). Motifs on the vignettes: Prizren (1913); Andja in the yard (1910–1911); Landscape  (1907); The shepherd plays the flute (1906). Motifs on the envelopes: Cleaning caterpillars (1906); Portrait of Jovan Skerlić (1907); Sisters  (1905).

Professional collaboration: Ljubica Miljković and Nikola Kusovac

Graphic realization of the publication: Nadežda Skočajić, academic graphic designer

Catalog information

February 14 2023
Graphics by Nadežda Skočajić
Multicolor offset “Forum” N. Sad; z.h. 13 3/4
1217. 30.00 dinars (multicolor) 25.000
1218. 30.00 din (multicolor) 25.000
1219. 30.00 din (multicolor) 25.000
Sheet: 8
On envelopes, FD stamped (FDC x 3)
Draft: 1217. Red house in the area; 1218. Facade of the Church of St. Mark in Venice (1914); 1219. Red peonies (1913).
Stamp size: 42 x 40.6 mm
Valid indefinitely.