Sreten Stojanović (Prijedor 1898 – Belgrade, 1960)
Sreten Stojanović was a Serbian sculptor, painter, draftsman, theorist, art critic, educator, the dean of the Art Academy in Belgrade and member of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He attended primary school in Prijedor (Bosnia). He began to attend high school in Banja Luka (Bosnia) but he was expelled as a revolutionist. During the war he was imprisoned. He was a member of the organization “Young Bosnia” which is why he was sentenced to several years in prison, after the outbreak of World War II. He studied painting and sculpture in Vienna and in Paris. Stojanović was one of the first professors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He expressed his sense of monumentality on the monuments of some important figures of national history,especially on the monuments executed after World War II.
He has exhibited at shows of independent artists in Paris in 1921. Many private and important public collection own works of Sreten Stojanović. His works have been exhibited in several galleries, among others, in the Memorial collection of Pavle Beljanski.