Ana Marinković
1881–1973 · Serbian painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Ana Marinković, born Ana Lozanić, was a Serbian painter active from the turn of the twentieth century until the outbreak of the Second World War. Born in Belgrade in 1881, she died in Guéthary, France, in 1973. Her paintings are held in the Belgrade City Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the National Museum of Serbia and other collections in Serbia and abroad.
She trained in Belgrade with Nadežda Petrović and the Vukanović couple, and continued her studies privately in London and Paris. Her first exhibition took place in 1908. In 1910 she showed as a guest artist with the Lada Art Society, joining it the following year. During the Balkan Wars and the First World War she served as a volunteer nurse with the army medical corps, accompanying her patients on the Albanian retreat to Corfu. After the war she co-founded the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia.
Her work centres on still lifes, interiors and landscapes around Belgrade, and shows the influence of the impressionism of Kosta Miličević. Because she did not need to teach for a living, she could paint at her own pace. After the war, with the communists in power, she settled in France, where she painted landscapes until the 1970s.
Her legacy is linked to other Serbian women painters of the period, such as Zora Petrović and Nadežda Petrović, with whom her work is displayed and with whom it shares expressive qualities.