Vera Božičković-Popović

Vera Božičković-Popović (8 May 1920 – 6 March 2002) was a Yugoslavian abstract painter.

Biography Vera Božičković was born on 8 May 1920 in Brčko, Yugoslavia, now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She studied under Marko Čelebonović at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduating in 1949. The same year she married painter Mića Popović. Božičković-Popović was also a member of the Association of Serbian Artists LADA.

The Popovićs apartment and studio in Belgrade was the site of the first Yugoslavian performance of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1954.

Vera Božičković-Popović died on 6 March 2002 in Belgrade. Her key works include Untitled (1958-1959), Torched Landscape (1959), Penetration of Light (1960), Landscape (1961), Horizontal Composition (1961), Dissipation (1961), and Vertical Layering (1962), representing some of the most radical and most valuable examples of Art Informel in Belgrade-based painting of this artistic orientation.