page_title: Matija Vuković
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Matija Vuković / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Фотографија скулптуре Матија Вуковић Перун 1962. година, налази се испред зграде Архива града Нови Београд. Аутор фотографије Nicolo
context_page_description: Matija Vuković was a Serbian sculptor.
context_section_description: Matija Vuković was born into a poor farming family in Platičevo, on 26 July 1925. From his native village, near Ruma, after primary school, in 1937, the boy and his mother move to Belgrade, near the studios of the famous sculptor Toma Rosandić. He was fascinated by the Maestros "huge figures", then Mestrović's sculptures, and then in one of the books he got as a present book, he saw Michelangelo's Moses. All this will paved his way into the art. Vuković attended private art school of Mladen Josić in 1941 – 1942.
  Immediately after the liberation of the Belgrade, in October 1944, Matija Vuković was mobilized and sent to the Syrmian Front, where, during a charge, he was wounded in the hand. He returned home as a disabled veteran and – devoted himself entirely to sculpture. Having successfully met the entrance exam, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and was treated in parallel. He learned from the top Yugoslav sculptor Tom Rosandić, and then attended the class of the professor Sreten Stojanović. He starts to exhibit in group exhibitions in 1949. Vuković graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. In 1954. during special classes of prof. Ilija Kolarević he sculpts "Wounded Man" (1952–1953), which revealed his original creative style. First solo exhibition Matija Vuković had in 1954. at the Art Gallery at Kalemegdan. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.
  His life was hard and he was for the most part misunderstood by his surroundings and critics. He died in Belgrade on 21 June 1985, after long disease.
caption: Perun, Matija Vuković, (1962), Municipality Hall of New Belgrade, Novi Beograd
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