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Petar Dobrović

1890–1942 · 20th century

Petar Dobrović was a Serbian painter from Pécs and one of the leading modernist painters of Yugoslavia. When the Treaty of Trianon returned the Baranya region to Hungary, he was proclaimed president of the short-lived Serbian-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic in August 1921. After Hungarian troops took the area he settled in Yugoslavia and returned to painting.

Petar Dobrović
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Serbian-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic

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