Lazar Drljača

Lazar Drljača (10 October 1882 – 13 July 1970) was a Bosnia and Herzegovina painter, who self-identified as the Bosnian bogumil.

Born in Blatna near Bosanski Novi into a Bosnian Serb family, he was initially an expressionist,[1] but turned to impressionism.

[3][4][5] He passed his examination for Fine Arts in Vienna in October 1906, and in 1911 he participated in the International Exhibition in Rome for the Kingdom of Serbia's pavilion,[6] after which he moved to Paris to attend art school, and worked in the Louvre copying the old masters, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes to commission.

Just before the World War II, sometime around 1935, he returned to Bosnia for good and settled in a village Borci, on a karst plateau between Boračko jezero and Prenj mountain, above Konjic.

He lived there for the rest of his life in seclusion, first in a village, and after he fell ill he moved to a nearby mountain villa, "Šantića Vila", above Boračko lake, where he would die in 1970.