Milo Milunović (Cetinje, 1897 – Belgrade, 1967)
Milo Milunović was schooled in Italy and France. Together with Petar Dobrović and Toma Rosandić, he was one of the founders of Belgrade’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, where he worked as one of the first professors. He exhibited at the Yugoslavian pavilion at the Biennale in Venice in 1938. After World War II, he founded the Cetinje Art School with Petar Lubarda, where he worked as a professor until 1948, when he moved to Belgrade. From 1952 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an associate member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He was a member of The Twelve and The Independents groups. He drew, did prints, frescoes, mosaics, posters, illustrations, stamp designs, set designs and theater costumes, he also wrote critiques and discussions on art. He is the winner of numerous awards and accolades, including: the Grand Prix for mosaic and painting at the International exhibitions in Paris in 1937, the October awards of the city of Belgrade in 1958, The painting award at the I October salon in 1960,the Seventh of July lifetime achievement award in 1961 in Belgrade, the first prize at the Blue salon in Zadar in 1964, and he was decorated with the Legion of Honor medal in Paris.