Vladimir Veličković

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Vladimir Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Величковић; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was born in Belgrade, then-Yugoslavia.

In 1987, he won the Herder Prize. In 1985, he became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2005, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[1] His paintings were exhibited in many countries in Europe and Americas starting in 1951.

Veličković died on 29 August 2019 at a hospital in Split, Croatia from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.[2]

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  1. Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
  2. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Preminuo slikar Vladimir Veličković". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2019-08-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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