Significant people from Sombor

The gallery of portraits of famous Sombor citizens includes a concise selection of very important civic portraits from the beginning of the 19th century to the interwar period The most represented portrait painter is Uroš Predić (1857-1953), a representative of academic realism educated in Vienna. Predić’s works are portraits of:...

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  • The gallery of portraits of famous Sombor citizens includes a concise selection of very important civic portraits from the beginning of the 19th century to the interwar period
  • The most represented portrait painter is Uroš Predić (1857-1953), a representative of academic realism educated in Vienna. Predić’s works are portraits of: Jelisaveta Grigorijević, Pavle Paphazi – the mayor of Sombor – and Joca Lalošević, a socio-political and cultural ambassador
  • There is a portrait of Istav Semza, a nobleman from Sombor and a member of the Hungarian Parliament
  • Along with it we can see a portrait of Niko Mihajlović, a great Serbian benefactor and the portrait of Avram Mrazović, who founded the oldest institute for teacher education