Category:Ivanovic, Katarina (1811-1882)

Ivanović was born in Veszprém in the Austrian Empire (now Hungary) to a middle-class family, and grew up in Székesfehérvár. She initially studied painting in Budapest and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1835. Ivanović traveled to Italy, France and Holland, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1843 and 1845. She worked in Belgrade from 1846 to 1847, where she painted portraits of notable people of the era, including Princess Persida Nenadović and Voivode Stevan Knićanin. In later years, she spent a lot of time traveling and living at different places, including Paris and Zagreb. Ivanović returned and died in Székesfehérvár (Hungary) in 1882.