Alex dzigurski biography

          The artist was born the son of a wheat farmer in Backa, in Stari Becej, Yugoslavia on February 1, With the help of the Serbian Church he went to Belgrade.

        1. The artist was born the son of a wheat farmer in Backa, in Stari Becej, Yugoslavia on February 1, With the help of the Serbian Church he went to Belgrade.
        2. Alexander Dzigurski was America's foremost seascape painter during the mid 20th century.
        3. Alexander Dzigurski I, .
        4. Dzigurski painted for more than sixty years.
        5. Alexander Dzigurski was born in in Atherton, California.

          6. Alexander Dzigurski I, ..

          As the Nazis invaded his native land, he was assigned to communications in the Yugoslav army. In 1941, most of his unit was taken prisoner, but Alex escaped, fleeing back to his young wife Lenka and his eight year old daughter Jelena.

          War caused extreme hardships on the Serbian people and Alex and his young family were no exception.

          He had to give up his prosperous portrait studio.

          Alexander Dzigurski was born in Backa, Stari Becej, Yugoslavia on February 1, With the help of the Serbian Church he went to Belgrade.

          To survive, Alexander, Lenka, and Jelena hoped to lie low near the home of his parents in Stari Becej. But as the Nazis dominated Yugoslavia, Alexander received advance warning that he was to be arrested and shipped to Norway or to the Russian Front, where he would probably meet his end in forced labor.

          He fled with Lenka and Jelena to Belgrade, and there signed contracts to work in Germany. While traveling to Germany, the family escaped again, finding their way to Vienna where Alex found work as a housepainter. His skill with a brush was was not to be hidden, and he was fortunate to supplement his hou