Bogdan Suput - Paintings (1914 - 1942)

Bogdan Šuput (Sisak, September 6, 1914 - Novi Sad, January 20, 1942) was a Serbian painter, a member of the "Desetorica" group.
He was born on September 6, 1914 in Sisak. At the age of nine, he moved with his parents to Novi Sad. He attended the State Boys' Gymnasium in Novi Sad, and later entered the Royal Art School in Belgrade, where his professors were Beta Vukanović, Dragoslav Stojanović, Simeon Roksandić, Ljuba Ivanović and Nikola Bešević. Considering him as his most gifted student, Ljuba Ivanović urged him to dedicate himself exclusively to graphics, and when the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade was founded in 1937, he proposed him as his assistant. However, Šuput, who was in Paris in the meantime (Matica srpska sent him to the Paris International Exhibition as a young talented artist) and was delighted with the color and oil painting, refused the offer of his favorite professor. In 1935, he became an associate of the Students' Matica in Novi Sad. At the same time, he started publishing graphics and caricatures in the Novi Sad newspapers "Dan" and "Reggeli Újság", as well as in Belgrade's "Politica" and "Ošišana ježu".

From 1936 to 1938, he attended the Academic Course at the School of Art in Belgrade, from which he graduated in order to go to Paris for painting training. There he participated in the founding of the Association of Yugoslav fine artists living in Paris in 1938. At that time, he published graphics with social themes in the almanac "Vojvođanski zbornik" and the magazine "Naš život" in Novi Sad.

Group of Ten
He returned from Paris to Novi Sad on June 23, 1939 and became a member of the "Desetorica" group, which included Ljubica-Cuca Sokić, Danica Antić, Jurica Ribar, Stojan Trumić, Aleksa Čelebonović, Nikola Graovac, Dušan Vlajić. , Bora Grujić and Milivoj Nikolajević. Immediately after the formation of the "Ten" group, its members from February 25—7. In March 1940, they organized a joint exhibition in the large hall of the Art Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić" in Belgrade. According to an art critic: Bogdan Šuput is undeniably the strongest and most expressive talent from this likable group. In mid-March 1940, Šuput visited Ulcinj, and in August the Ljubija mine, for rest and in search of new painting motifs. In the fall of the same year, he went to Sarajevo for military service. In the April collapse of Yugoslavia in 1941, he ended up in German captivity. In the Stalag IV A prison camp in Olbersdorf, in Saxony, he belongs to the illegal organization "Drug", but he is active in the cultural and artistic life and does scenography for the performances there. He managed to leave the camp on November 1, 1941, and after eleven days he arrived in Novi Sad, but on January 23, 1942. shot together with his mother and aunt in a raid carried out by Hungarian fascists.