Vera Nikolic Podrinska

In memoriam

Vera Nikolic Podrinska was a Croatian painter and baroness. Podrinska was the daughter of baron Vladimir Nikolic and baronness Elle née Scotti. Nikolic was taught painting by the Croatian painter Oton Ivekovi? from 1900, and in Paris by Andre Lhote and hr:Leo Junek. In 1917 she had her first one-woman show. In 1944 a prison camp was established at her property on Pantovcak street in Zagreb by the government of the Independent State of Croatia. At the camp were held American captured pilots. The pilots were allowed to work at Nikolic vineyard and could use her estate to play tennis and listen to music, among other activities. After the war her property was either nationalized or bought up by the ruling Communist Party and Vila Zagorje, an estate of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz, was built. She published the travel book Od Zagreba do Bangkoka (From Zagreb to Bangkok) in 1957. Nikolic travelled to the United States of America in 1966 to attend a showing of her works. She was greeted by several of the former prisoners who were held at her estate during World War II.

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