ANTON LUKATELI- GRAFIČAR I ILLUSTRATORHRONIČAR NOB-A, SKICA ZA PORTRET
Anton Lukateli- graphic artist and illustrator - chronicler of the National Liberation War, portrait sketch

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is that, through research of scarce and rare documentation and memories collected from the artist‘s daughter, primaballerina Ivanka Lukateli, to illuminate the life, ideological principles and creative poetics of Anton Lukateli, an insufficiently studied and unjustly neglected artist who dedicated his enitre opus to anti-fascism and National Liberation War. Anton Lukateli was a participant in the National Liberation War from 1941, a versatile cultural worker, one of the founders of ULUCG (The Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro) its first secretary, initiator of Montenegrin cinematography, author of the first ‚‘Pobjeda‘‘ logo where he worked as an illustrator, and author of the first social dinar in Montenegro, together with the painter Milan Božović. He was one of the first representatives of social realism in Montenegro, and his most successful works were linocuts with a war thematics, on which he manifested resistance to injustice and violence through convincing artistic expression. He was the author of the first post-war map of graphics with which he participated in the Pan-Slavic Exhibition of Graphics in Prague in 1946, and one copy is preserved in the National Museum of Montenegro. Because of his beliefs, he was imprisoned on Goli Otok from 1952 to 1954. After Goli Otok, he moved to Belgrade, where he withdrew from public life in a certain way and was engaged in scenography and film work.

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