Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini (Jan 2010)
Unjustly forgotten painter
Abstract
This paper talks about a painter, Sima Čemerikić, whose miscellaneous and rich work, due to unexplained circumstances, has remained out of reach of professional and general public until now. He was born in 1906 in Prizren where he completed junior high-school in 1923. Afterwards, he moved to Skopje. He entered a state School of Art in Belgrade in 1924. Having graduated in 1929 he spent a short time training in Venice. Upon his arrival in Skopje, his artistic career began. Along with other painters from Macedonia, he equally fills the pages of Macedonian modern art. He remained in this city until the capitulation of that country. The other part of his life, from 1941 to his death in 1973, he spent in Niš. The work of Sima Čemerikić is separated into two periods. The first one, from Skopje, lasted from his graduation from the Art School in 1929 to the beginning of the World War II. The second period, from Niš, begins after his family had moved to Niš and ends with his death in 1973. He left hundreds of drawings and a number of paintings behind as well as a dozen of pastels and hundreds of aquarelles. Let me mention some of the paintings: Landscape of the sea, Landscape of Makarska, A Theme from Bol on Brač, Pain, A Little Gypsy, Portrait of The Sister, Fish, Chrysanthemum, Roses, Books and Apples, Tulips.
