| Nevenka
Đordevic - Tomaševic 1899 - 1975
Education:
With Ljubo Babic, (Zagreb, from 1915) W.Jackel and Alexander
Archipenko, (Berlin, 1916-1921)
Provisional College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, 1916-1921
Biography: As the only child of a wealthy goldsmith family,
she spent five years in a Roman Catholic convent school
in her birthplace in Romania, where she started painting.
Eager to have a more systematic arts education, she came
to Zagreb at the age of sixteen. After a preparatory period
with Ljubo Babic, she became a full time student of the
College from 1.10.1916. After completing her studies in
1921, she spent two years in Berlin with her future husband
Ernest Tomaševic in order to supplement her arts education.
On her return to Zagreb, from 1924, she intensively engaged
in ceramics in the class of Hinko Juhn. She married Ernest
Tomaševic in 1926. In the first days after the Second World
War she was deeply shaken by learning how her mother was
killed, namely, when the Soviet "liberators of the
proletariat" came to Veliki Mikloš, they captured all
the well-off citizens, including her widowed mother, and
lined them up in a meadow. Each of the "capitalists"
had to dig a grave. They shot the first line, and the "bourgeois"
from the second line had to bury them. Nevenka suffered
from this news until she died of Alzheimers disease.
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