Mihailo Milovanović

Mihailo Milovanović (Gostinica, Serbia, 24 February 1879 – Užice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 November 1941) was a Serbian painter, sculptor and writer.

During the First World War, he was a war painter of the Serbian Army's Supreme Command and, as such, he painted portraits of Voivodes Radomir Putnik, Živojin Mišić, Stepa Stepanović and Petar Bojović, as well as General Pavle Jurišić Šturm, King Peter I of Serbia and Regent Alexander Karađorđević.

Other Serbian artists, including his colleagues Dragomir Glišić, Petar Ranosović, and Milan Milovanović[3] were also painting and drawing on the front lines.

Mihailo Milovanović was killed in Užice at the end of November 1941 by Tito's Communist partisans who supposedly mistook him for an English spy.

[4] After the Second World War and in the days of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he was completely overshadowed, his name was conveniently omitted in encyclopedias devoted to art.