Đura Jakšić

Georgije Jakšić, known as Đura, was born in 1832 in Srpska Crnja, in the Banat, the son of a priest and the eldest of nine children. Above all a painter, trained in Temišvar and then at the Pest academy, he left some two hundred canvases and is counted among the main painters of Serbian Romanticism. Having moved to Serbia in 1857, he was a village schoolteacher and a drawing teacher, clashed with the authorities everywhere and lived in poverty and bohemia. He died of tuberculosis in Belgrade in 1878, a proofreader at the State Printing Office.

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• TheatreЈелисавета, кнегиња црногорскаĐura Jakšić · 1868not translated into EnglishLiterature