[1][2] Stanojević comes from a distinguished family, a direct descendant of Prince Stanoje Mihailović from Zeoke who was killed in the Slaughter of the Knezes in 1804.
Veljko Stanojević's training in painting began at the School of Arts and Crafts in Belgrade with Ljubomir Ivanović and Marko Murat.
In late 1919, he moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for two years and then decided to live there until 1930.
His work in the spirit of "idealized reality", which emerged in the 1920s, is considered by critics to be his most authentic creative period, making Veljko Stanojević one of our most significant painters of the third decade of the 20th century.
The fact remains that Veljko Stanojević is one of our significant painters and pioneers, whose work between the two wars largely determined the life of new art.