LESKOVAC AND SURROUNDINGS IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MEMORIAL COLLECTION OF HRISTIFOR CRNILOVIĆ: Exhibition review

Abstract

Hristifor Crnilović, a painter and drawing teacher, came from a civil family of Vlasotince from the end of the nineteenth century. After schooling in Belgrade and Munich, between the two world wars, he was one of the bearers of cultural and intellectual life, which was formed in Skopje, where he was deployed as a lecturer. The interest of the mentioned circle, and of Crnilović himself, was, among other things, directed towards the amateur study of ethnology, art and visual culture and the collection of antiquities.