Beta Vukanović

Beta Vukanović (18 April 1872 – 31 October 1972), also known as Babette Bachmayer, was a Serbian painter and centenarian.

Born in Bamberg, Upper Franconia, German Empire, she initially studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich.

Her earliest works reflected the influence of plein-air painting in Munich, which changed to Impressionism before World War I.

She originated Serbian artistic caricature [citation needed] and left around 500 humorous portraits of contemporaries from the social and cultural scene in Belgrade.

[2] Her husband was an Impressionist painter, Rista Vukanović (born 3 April 1873, Bugovina, near Trebinje, Herzegovina - died 7 January 1918, Paris), recognized as one of the artists responsible for taking Serbian art into new directions.