ADVENTUROUS LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 12

ADVENTUROUS LIFE

CAREER OF AN ARTIST

<<j696—Bed Indian Chicf —bust, bronze." Behind this announcement in the official list of this year's works at the Boyal Academy exhibition is th« story of an adventurous life. It is the I story of a man who fought for his country during the war and refused decorations and medals from his King for his services, who lay in a prison, cell for eighteen months, who washed (dishes in a Chicago hotel for his livelihood, and who has now realised one or his life's ambitions by becoming an. exhibitor at the Koyal Academy, says an English paper. . , The artist is Mr. Yanko Brayovitch, a 44-year-old Montenegrin, whose life has been dedicated to "freeing hii country." Most of his_ art work win conceived While he lay in gaol. "I fought with the army of Monte' negro in the Great War, and was at* tached to the staff of Prince Peter, third son of our King," Mr. Brayovitch said in an interview. "I was offered a position at Court and decorations by King Nicholas, but I refused them. I felt I could not accept such honours while so many of my countrymen were practically slaves; although my brother was "the Director of the King's Palace. In 1916, when, the Montenegrin army was captured, I escaped with King Nicholas, and managed to get to France on an English steamer." It was in America that Mr. Brayovitch launched out as a sculptor and made his name as an artist. He later returned to Europe, and because of his political activities was arested and imprisoned in Serbia. "My wife died while T-lay in my; coll. I have a son and a daughter, seventeen and eighteen years old, but I have not seen them since they-were infants. If I returned now," Mr. Brayovitch said, "I should either ba imprisoned again or shot —and all be* cause of my lovo for my country."