The exhibition "Milica Babić-Andrić - life and work" will be opened today in Herceg Novi, in the House of the Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić, at 21 p.m.
The focus of the installation is photographs from life Milice Babić-Andric, the shared life of Milica and the Nobel laureate Iva Andrić, as well as the works of this artist in the field of costume design in her thirty-year long career. The exhibition is the result of cooperation between the Šamac Culture Center, the National Theater in Belgrade, the Museum of the City of Belgrade and the Museum of Theater Arts of Serbia, and will be open until August XNUMX.
The exhibition was shown in October 2022 at the opening of the "Andrić's Days" event in Travnik, after which it continued its life: in Bijeljina, Han Pijesko, Višegrad... Hosting the exhibition in Herceg Novi is significant from the point of view of connecting all the cities where life is and working life spent by Milica Babić-Andrić and Ivo Andrić.
Babić was born in Bosanski Šamac, in a merchant family in 1909. She spent her working life in Belgrade, and died in Herceg Novi. She studied in Vienna and Paris, after which she came to Belgrade as the first trained costume designer. She was employed at the National Theater in Belgrade from 1930 to 1960, where she designed costumes for about 300 theater plays, operas and ballets, and collaborated with regional theaters.
"Besides being a pioneer of theater costume design in our country, she also worked on costume design for the first domestic films, and as a university professor she taught at the first Academy of Applied Arts and at the Film Academy in Belgrade", remind the organizers.
For her work, she received several important awards, namely: the Order of Labor with a Golden Wreath, which she was awarded in 1949, and the Sterija Theater Award in Novi Sad in 1956, making her the first local costume designer to receive that award. As a meritorious citizen, she was awarded the Plaque of the City of Belgrade in 1964.
After finishing her career, in 1963, together with her husband Ivo Andrić, she moved to Herceg Novi, to the house they built after the awarding of the Nobel Prize. She died in that house in 1968. She was buried in the Alley of Meritorious Citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.
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