{"id":20874,"date":"2024-09-26T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welcometokonjic.ba\/2024\/09\/26\/lazar-drljaca-posljednji-bogumil\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T07:01:49","slug":"lazar-drljaca-the-last-bogomil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welcometokonjic.ba\/en\/2024\/09\/26\/lazar-drljaca-the-last-bogomil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazar Drlja\u010da, the last Bogomil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lazar Drlja\u010da, the famous Bosnian academic painter and the last Bogumil, as he called himself, was born back in 1882 near Bosanska Krupa, and died on July 13, 1970, in Konjic at the age of 88. He was born in a rural, poor family. Wanting to get an education, his parents sent him to Sarajevo, where he arrived in 1896 and finished his locksmith trade. In 1906, he graduated from the Technical High School, and in the same year, he passed the admission exam at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Five years later, at the invitation of Christian Gripenkerl, he participated in the International Art Exhibition in Rome, and after Rome, young Lazar went to the lights of Paris.<\/p>\n

Biographers state that he came to Konjic in 1931 with a two-wheeler, which he made himself, and settled in Borci, in a shepherd’s hut, far from people and the world. He rarely exhibited and sold his paintings – only “yes, sometimes so he has something to live on”, so from 1930 to 1962, only the people of Mostar, Cetinje, Sarajevo, Kotor and Herzegovina saw them.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”20859″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]\n

When he came to Konjic, he decided to live there, and until then he traveled extensively while his works of art attracted great attention and admiration. He loved to paint and transfer his emotions to the canvas, and his numerous works bear witness to this. He even stated on one occasion that he paints because he loves, and exhibits only to survive. He was a great lover of nature and to make paintings, he made paints from natural materials that he found on the Prenj Mountain.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]During the Second World War, passing armies tore up and destroyed his numerous paintings, which was a great sadness for this important artist. The works he painted during his most fruitful painting period have disappeared. He had two larger canvases left on the easel, from which he scraped the paint and material and used it to make himself a suit. After that, the authorities of Konjic municipality gave him the \u0160anti\u0107 villa to live in, where he lived for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”20857″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Some of his most famous works are: “Portrait of Bertha” (Potrtet od Berte), “Copernicus”(Kopernik), “Capinera”, “From
\nBosnian hamlets”(Iz bosanske mahale), “The Three Horsemen” (Tri konjanika), “On the way from Florence to Viterbo”, “Colorist bum”,
\n“Portrait of an old man” and others.<\/p>\n

As far back as 1932, Lazar Drlja\u010da said about himself: “You see, after Rome and Paris, where I worked and exhibited, I became a real, hard Bosnian peasant. I am, in fact, Bogumil.” His only and greatest wish was to be buried as Bogumil. He was buried next to the \u0160anti\u0107 Villa, where he lived for many years. The ste\u0107ak on his grave was discovered in August 2010. On the ste\u0107ak it is written: “Let it be known that since they placed a ste\u0107ak on me, neither travelers on earth nor stars in the sky can lead me astray, dead and living, I have been a signpost”.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

With the aim of preserving the memory of two great men, Lazar Drlja\u010da and Zulfikar Zuko D\u017eumhur, the art school “Zuko i Lazo” has been operating in Konjic for many years as part of the Association for the Protection of Cultural and Historical Heritage.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Today, in the corner of the Heritage Museum dedicated to Lazar Drlja\u010da, you can see two original paintings by Lazar Drlja\u010da, “Copernicus” and “Portrait of an Old Man”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”20859,20868,20866,20862,20870,20857″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11660″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” css=”.vc_custom_1508154483781{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11661″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” css=”.vc_custom_1508154497588{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”18334″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” css=”.vc_custom_1695638983559{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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