Mirjana Lehner Dragić

Mirjana Lehner Dragić (; born 28 July 1936) is a Serbian painter.

Biography Early days Mirjana Lehner Dragić was born on 28 July 1936 in Belgrade, to Alfred and Mirjam Lehner. Her father was from Osijek, and her mother was a member of the known Bosnian Jewish family Papo. After the outbreak of the Second World War, she hid with her family in the countryside near Belgrade, then in the village of Vučak near Kruševac, and later fled to Sarajevo with her aunt. While Mirjana and her parents survived the Holocaust, almost her entire maternal family was taken to the Sajmište concentration and extermination camp. After the end of the war, Miriam Lehner could not accept the fact that she had lost almost all her family; she decided then to leave the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in the First Aliya in 1948, leaving Mirjana in Belgrade with her father Alfred. For almost two decades, she led the art section "Leon Koen" in the Jewish Community of Belgrade, and she designed the scenography for the performances of the Belgrade Jewish Theater Kralj David in Pančevo. With the scenography for the play The Violinist on the Roof in 2001, she participated in the 12th International Triennial of Theater Scenography and Costumes in Novi Sad. She has also won the ULUPUDS annual award for the exhibitions "Bridges of Life" (1993), "My Aunt Erne's Lace" (2002) and "Synagogue as Artistic Heritage" (2006). She has also designed the Hebrew Calendars of the Jewish Community of Serbia for the years for 5762 (2001-02) and 5767 (2007-08), along with the exhibition "The Sarajevo Haggadah as an Inspiration" at the Jewish Museum of Belgrade.

Awards In 2013, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia.