Mihajlo S. Petrov (1902-1983) was a Serbian-Yugoslavian avant-garde painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and art critic.
[1][2] After he completed his studies under the tutelage of Ljubomir Ivanović at the Arts and Crafts School and Milan Milovanović at the Royal Art School (Kraljevska umetnička škola) in Belgrade.
[3] He then went on to pursue further study in Vienna (1922), Krakow (1923) and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1924-1925).
He was also a collaborator with other avant-garde journals such as Dada Tank,[4] and Út,[5] In 1924, Petrov was one of the youngest artists to have his paintings on display at the international exhibition in Belgrade which featured the works of more than 100 contemporary European artists.
[6] Petrov and two of his colleagues (Ivan Radović and Veljko Stojanović) had a great impact on the art scene in Belgrade from the 1920s right through the 1930s.