Biography

Artist and sculptor Petar Krstić was born on June 16, 1926 in Belgrade, in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1948 he went on to begin his work in Sculpture studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He was of the first post-war generation of art students at the faculty. After graduating from Belgrade, Krstić moved to Sarajevo where he was instrumental in co-founding the Sculpture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a prolific sculptor through his life and is best known for a number of significant World War II memorials and monuments built across former Yugoslavia predominantly in the sixties and seventies. The most notable of monumental works that Krstić worked on were primarily located within the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, such at those locates at memorial sites in Ilidža, Vogošća, Sanski Most and Bratunac. It is also important to point out that these four sites were only the design competitions which Krstić won the tenders for, as he submitted sculptural solutions for many additional monument project competitions during the Yugoslav era which his proposals did not win the first-place prize. Krstić passed away in Belgrade on March 3rd, 1990.