Stamenko was one of several Serbian sculptors of his generation at the time, namely Živojin Lukić (1889–1934), Marko Brežanin (1885–1956), Dragomir Arambašić.
It was the sculptor Đorđe Jovanović who encouraged Stamenko to enroll at the Arts and Crafts School in Belgrade.
After a two- year study in Prague at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Professor Josef Drahoňovský from 1911–1913,[2] he then left for Paris to enrol at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the class of Professor Antonin Mercié.
In 1918 shortly after the war ended, he received a Serbian state stipend and went back to Paris to resume his interrupted art studies.
The same year, he took part in an exhibition with Momir Korunović,[5] in which he displayed 34 of his works, mostly portraits and busts of prominent and well-known public figures.
His works are familiar to connoisseurs of art such as the busts of Princess Ljubica, Nikola Pašić, Peter I, Karađorđe, and others.