Slavko Vorkapich
| Slavko Vorkapić | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 17, 1894 Dobrinci, Austria-Hungary (now Serbia) |
| Died | October 20, 1976 (aged 82) Mijas, Spain |
Slavoljub "Slavko" Vorkapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Славољуб "Славко" Воркапић; March 17, 1894 – October 20, 1976), known in English as Slavko Vorkapich.
Serbian-American Hollywood motion-picture montagist, Chair of USC School of Cinematic Arts, Chair of the Belgrade ''Film and Theatre Academy'', painter, and illustrator. He was a prominent figure of modern cinematography and motion picture film art during the early and mid-20th century and was a noted cinema theorist & lecturer, comparable in historical importance with Sergei Eisenstein.
Slavoljub Vorkapić was born on March 17, 1894, in the small village of Dobrinci near Ruma in the Syrmia region, at the time part of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Serbia). His father Petar, the town clerk, insisted that young Slavko should be well-educated. After finishing his primary education, he became a student in a well-known regional high-school in the nearby town of Sremska Mitrovica, where he made his first steps in art and drawing. (Mileva Marić-Einstein, the first wife and work associate of Albert Einstein went to the same high school.) He continued his high-school education in Zemun and later in the famous Art School in Belgrade. With a scholarship received from Matica srpska, Serbia's highest cultural and scientific institution at the time, Vorkapić went to Budapest, Hungary, where he studied art. At the beginning of World War I he immediately returned to his homeland where, with the country besieged on all sides, he survived the tragic Serbian retreat across Albania in order to reach Allied positions in Greece. From there he sailed to Italy, from where he reached France. He managed to enter Art Academy in Paris but soon after moved to Montparnasse among other Avant-garde artists. He took part in the 1917 and 1919 collective painter exhibits.
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