Sava Šumanović

Sava Šumanović (Serbian: Сава Шумановић; 22 January 1896–30 August 1942) was a Yugoslav painter.

Sava Šumanović was born in Vinkovci, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia) in 1896 where his father was working as an engineer. At four years old his family moved to Šid (now in Serbia). He graduated High School in Zemun, across the Danube from Belgrade, where he was first introduced to the art of painting. He later enrolled in the College of Crafts and Arts in Zagreb then lived in Paris for several years, since 1920. His professor in Paris was André Lhote, while Šumanović befriended Amedeo Modigliani, Max Jacob and various Paris-based Serbian artists and writers such as Rastko Petrović.

Living for a couple of years in Croatia, Šumanović returned to Paris in late 1925, and stayed again for several years, accepting certain influences of the Matisse painting style. Šumanović returned to Šid in 1928 and after another year spent in Paris, eventually settled there in 1930. His major exhibition was at the Belgrade New University in 1939, where he exposed roughly 410 paintings mostly from the Šid period. It was his first major success after many years. He lived queitly in Šid until the outbreak of World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, when the Nazi-sponsored Independent State of Croatia, led by the Croatian fascist Ustaše, occupied Syrmia and began a genocide campaign against Serbs and Jews.

Ustaše police arrested Šumanović together with 150 Serbian citizens and took them to a concentration camp in Sremska Mitrovica. Šumanović was executed there on 30 August 1942, together with many other Serbs and buried in a common grave in a Serbian Orthodox graveyard.

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