Miroslav Živković Explained

Miroslav Živković Мирослав Живковић
Birth Date:	1934
Birth Place:	Gornje Krnjino, Pirot
Death Place:	Pirot
Nationality:	Serbian
Field:	Painting
Website:	http://www.mnmu.rs/zivkovic-miroslav-gb.htm

Miroslav Živković (Serbian: Мирослав Живковић; 1934 in Gornje Krnjino – 18 February 2009 in Pirot) was a Serbian naïve art painter.^[1]

Biography

Živković was born in the village of Gornje Krnjino near Pirot in 1934. He lived and worked in Pirot and died there in 2009.^[2] He began painting in 1955. The favorite source of his paintings was the Stara planina mountain near Pirot. He combined inner scenes and fantasy with mountain meadows, glades and forest.^{[1] [3]}

Exhibitions

The largest collection of his paintings is at the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, Serbia.

Literature

• M. Bošković; M. Maširević, Samouki likovni umetnici u Srbiji, Turin, 1977
• Ото Бихаљи-Мерин; Небојша Бато Томашевић, Енциклопедија наивне уметности света, Belgrade, 1984
• Љ. Којић, Завичајни хроничари - Мирослав Живковић, у: Наивна уметност Србије, САНУ, МNMA, Jagodina, 2003; 128
• N. Krstić, Naivna umetnost u Srbiji, SANU, MNMA, Jagodina, 2003
• Lj. Kojić, Мирослав Живковић у збирци МНМУ, MNMA, Jagodina, 2009
• N. Krstić, Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia, MNMA, Jagodina, 2007
• N. Krstić, Miroslav Živković, MNMA, Jagodina, 2009.

External links

• Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art, Jagodina, Serbia

Notes and References

1. N. Krstić, Miroslav Živković, MNMA, Jagodina, 2009.
2. Љ. Којић, "Завичајни хроничари - Мирослав Живковић", in Наивна уметност Србије, САНУ, МNMA, Jagodina, 2003; 128
3. [Oto Bihalji-Merin|Ото Бихаљи-Мерин]