Daniel Ozmo Explained

Daniel Ozmo
Birth Date:14 March 1912
Birth Name:Daniel Ozmo
Birth Place:Olovo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary[1]
Death Place:Jasenovac concentration camp

Daniel Ozmo (14 March 1912 – 5 September 1942) was a Yugoslav Jewish painter and printmaker. He studied in Belgrade, where he became a member of the communist progressive youth movement.

His paintings, other than of Sephardi Jewish life, portrayed social relations in rural and working class Bosnia. His works were exhibited 1932–40 in Sarajevo, where he was one of the founding group of young painters, and in Belgrade in 1937.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Ozmo was captured along with Daniel Kabiljo in Sarajevo by the Nazis after the Invasion of Yugoslavia. Due to his involvement with the Collegium Artisticum movement in the 1930s, he was known as a leftist. Ozmo hid with his sister's family to avoid arrest, but was ambushed by the police while attempting to flee the city. He was deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp on November 16, 1941. At the camp, he was forced to perform heavy labor such as; building the camp barracks, a wire fence and a dam. Ozmo was also the kapo of an artists' workshop known as the "ceramic group" which produced "official" propaganda art for the camp. Some of these works are kept in the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was executed in the camp in 1942, either on August 1 or September 5th, by shooting.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Rajner . Mirjam . Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 . 2019 . Leiden . 978-90-04-40890-6.
  2. Toman Brajović – Sutjeska u delima likovnih umetnika Jugoslavije 1969 "Petar Dobrović, Pecuh 1890 — Belgrade 1942. Ivo Lozica, Lumbarda 1910 — shot at Lumbarda 1943. Daniel Ozmo, Olovo 1912 — killed in Jasenovac 1942. Roman Petrovic, Donji Vakuf 1896 — Sarajevo 1947. "
  3. Žarko Domljan – 1987 A. Hl. OZMO, Danijel, slikar i grafičar (Olovo, 14. III 1912 – Jasenovac, 5. IX 1942). Pohađao slikarsku školu Lj. Ivanovića u Beogradu, gdje je pristupio naprednom omladinskom pokretu. Bio je jedan od osnivača grupe slikara Mladi ...
  4. Nada Bogdanov Enciklopedija Leksikografskog zavoda Volume 4 OZMO, Daniel (Olovo, 1912 — Jasenovac, 1942), slikar i grafičar. Studirao u Beogradu, pripadao pokretu napredne marksističke omladine. Obrađivao socijalne teme, jednostavne u lik. izrazu i jasne po ideji. Izlagao 1932 — 40 u Sarajevu, gdje je jedan od osnivača grupe slikara Mladi, te u Beogradu 1937 .. ...
  5. Azra Begić UMJETNICI JEVREJI XX STOLJEĆA U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI (ARTISTS – JEWS OF THE 20th CENTURY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) Sefarad 92 str. 313–321