Đura Jakšić
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Đura Jakšić / Ђура Јакшић (27 July 1832–16 November 1878) was a Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist, bohemian, and patriot.
Jakšić was born in Srpska Crnja. His house has been transformed into a Memorial Museum in his honour. He obtained his early education in Temesvár (now in Romania) and Szeged (now in Hungary). For a while he lived in Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin), where he studied painting at Konstantin Danil's. Đura Jakšić then studied fine arts in Vienna and Munich.
Jakšić is one of the most expressive representatives of Serbian Romanticism. Passionate, impetuously imaginative, emotional, rebellious and imbued with romantic nationalist sentiment, his songs about freedom, invectives against tyranny, and verses of lyric confession resonate with romantic pathos.
He wrote some forty short stories, three full-length dramas (Stanoje Glavaš, Seoba Srbalja, Jelisaveta) and the novel Warriors.
He was one of the most talented Serbian painters of the XIX century, and is perhaps the most prominent representative of romanticism in Serbian painting.
Although he is best known for his literature and paintings, Jakšić was also a teacher and professor. Schools and colleges throughout Serbia and the rest of the former Yugoslavia still bear his name.
