1910-Kragujevac (former Yugoslavia)
2001-Paris
At the age of nineteen, while studying Latin and archaeology, she was asked to write a publication about the excavations of Vinca by the famous archaeologist Vasic.
(Serbia’s first trained archaeologist). Shortly afterwards she married the Dane Staack and settled with him in Copenhagen. There she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts. She obtained a scholarship in 1947. This gave her the opportunity to go to Paris to study at the academies of André Lhote and Fernand Léger. She acquires French nationality.
In 1951 she participated in the Salon d’Automme and in 1953 and 1954 in both the Salon de Mai and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. There, the abstraction achieved in her work at that time was noticed by both the public and art critics. In 1958 and 1960 she exhibited at Galerie Charpentier and Galerie Hautefeuille in Paris respectively. Her best works consist of refined abstract compositions in combination with fantastic soft use of color. Something we also see with an artist like Geer van Velde.
