Important Bosnian impressionist. Born in Mostar 1885, died in Skopje 1916. Studied art at the Serbian Drawing School in Belgrade under guidance of Ristа and Beta Vukanović. Later he moved to Prague where he graduated from the Fine Art Academy in 1911. He was a student of Vlaho Bukovac and prof Zhenishek. He also played music and wrote music critics. At the beginning of 1912 he moved to Paris where he was friend with Nadezda Petrović and where he developed a strong impressionistic tendency in his painting. He returned back the same year as a volunteer in the Serbian Army for the Balkan wars. In 1913 he moves back to Paris, and again he returns to Serbia as a volunteer in the World War 1. He got sick and died in Skopje, Macedonia in 1916.
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Where is the grave of Gerard Chowne?
For some painters, Macedonia was their final destination. Gerard Henry Tilson Chowne (1875 India – 1917 Macedonia) was a British painter that was educated at