Ida Ćirić

Ivanka Ida Ćirić
Ida Ćirić (1979, a photo by Dragoljub Kažić)
Born	3rd March 1932 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Died	2007 Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality	Serb
Education	Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
Known for	Illustration for children

Ida Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ида Ћирић; Belgrade, 3 March 1932 — Belgrade 2007, born Vučković, given name Ivanka) was a notable Serbian illustrator for children.

Except for illustration, the fields of her interest were book design, collage and papier-mache objects. She illustrated more than 50 books, and numerous book covers and magazine illustrations. Won 12 important Yugoslav national awards for illustration. Performed six one-man exhibitions.

Her father Svetislav Vučković (1902–1973) was an engineer and before the 2nd World War one of the leaders of the Slavic "Falcon" gymnastic movement (Serbian Soko, Czech Sokol). Mother Slavka (1903–1983) was professor of gymnastic. Her older brother dr Vladan Vučković (1928–2006) was an engineer, a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, an excellent pianist and chess problemist, and her younger brother was Dragan Vučković (1930–1998) traffic engineer and multiple Yugoslav champion in rally.

During the studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, she met her future husband Miloš Ćirić (1931–1999), with whom she got two sons, Rastko (b. 1955) and Vukan (b. 1959). It was the beginning of the artistic Ćirić family, today having the third generation of professional art creators.

Upon graduation, Ida and Miloš Ćirić work and exhibit together. Ida specialized in children’s illustration, which she will cherish incessantly for the next thirty years, up to the end of the 1980s, marking the whole period with her characteristic stylization of figures and rich color. Art historian Vesna Lakićević Pavićević, the specialist for Serbian illustration, says: "Ida Ćirić, during the four decades, worked as an illustrator and reached the results without which one can not make the real picture about the development of Serbian illustration of the second half of the Twentieth century."