Olga Jevrić

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Olga Jevric (born 1922) (not to be confused with Olga Jancic) is a famous Serbian sculptor, one of the many renowned female sculptors emerging from Serbia.

Olga Jevrić was born in Belgrade in 1922. In 1941 she graduated from high school, but was rejected on the entrance exam of the studies at the Sculpting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. The following year, she successfully enrolls both the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Music in Belgrade (both now faculties).

In 1948 Jevrić graduated at the sculpting department of AFA, in the class of prof. Sreten Stojanović. She got an M.A. degree in 1949 (special course) in the class of the same professor (Sreten Stojanovic). She also studied art history in Belgrade.

She was accepted as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and SLUJ in 1950.

Her first exhibition was in 1948, and since then she had numerous exhibitions in country and abroad. She received many awards.

Olga Jevrić was the first new donator to Belgrade Heritage House; she signed a Gift Contract on 10th February 2006 and bequeathed 44 of her sculptures made in iron-oxide, iron, cement, terracotta and filmed plaster.