Matija Vuković

From his native village, near Ruma, after primary school, in 1937, the boy and his mother move to Belgrade, near the studios of the famous sculptor Toma Rosandić.

Immediately after the liberation of the Belgrade, in October 1944, Matija Vuković was mobilized and sent to the Syrmian Front, where, during a charge, he was wounded in the hand.

He learned from the top Yugoslav sculptor Tom Rosandić, and then attended the class of the professor Sreten Stojanović.

[citation needed] Matija Vuković appeared at the time of break from the aesthetics of socialist realism, in the early 1950s, with works that are significantly different from academic form.

With his work Matija Vuković pointed to yet another possibility of modernizing new form, which will be free to develop towards plastic conceived by the author.