Pavle Beljanski

[1] He attended high school in Belgrade, where he also studied law until the beginning of World War I, when he left for Paris.

He started his diplomatic career in Stockholm, and continued it in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Rome and Belgrade.

Tragic circumstances – the death of seven members of his family during the bombing of Svilajnac in 1944 – left Beljanski without the possibility of sharing the beauty of his collection with his dearest, so he decided to donate it to the Serbian people.

[3][4] Pavle Beljanski wrote what his collection meant to him: "Svaka od tih slika deo je mog života!

[2] In 1957 Pavle Beljanski bequeathed his collection of 185 artworks by 37 artists to the Serbian nation by signing a Donation Contract with the Executive Council of AP Vojvodina.