JONOVIĆ Dušan
JONOVIĆ Dušan
Painter, Set designer, Icon and fresco copyist
(Sremski Karlovci, 1920 – Novi Sad, 1992)
He finished the primary school and Secondary Civil School in Novi Sad. – Self-taught artist. Until World War II, he had worked in Novi Sad as a clerk. His friendship with painters (B. Šuput, S. Bodnarev, S. Ipić, Đ. Todorović and L. Bibić) contributed to the development of his painting talent and skills. As an amateur painter he exhibited for the first time in 1947 at a group exhibition. He worked as a painter for the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad (1950 - 1952), set designer for the Popular Theatre in Sremska Mitrovica (1952 - 1954), the Popular Theatre in Zenica (1954 - 1957), and the Regional National Theatre in Priština (1957 - 1961). When he returned to Novi Sad (1961), he worked as a draftsman for Jugoreklam Co., and then as technical manager for the National Theatre in Subotica until retirement. Came back to live in Novi Sad. Member of UPIDIV since 1965. Took part in many national and international group exhibitions. His works are included in numerous art collections – in Italy, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, USA, Israel…
One-man exhibitions: Sremski Karlovci (1971), Novi Sad (1971, 1988)
Copy of a fresco
| 11. Always. Melba toast had turned into dust over which worms were crawling. He was eating pieces of ox skin from the rope; the pieces were terribly hard of sun, rain, wind, so he would keep them in water for four or five days, grill them and then eat. He ate sawdust and rats as well. The water turned black, it smelled bad. The black river. |
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