Background
Djordje was born to the Serbian father and a German mother in Germany, but most of his education was carried out in Berlin and Belgrade.
Djordje was born to the Serbian father and a German mother in Germany, but most of his education was carried out in Berlin and Belgrade.
He further studied in Italy (1926–1928) and Paris, France (1928–1929).
He was a graduate of the "Belgrade Academy of Art". In 1931 and 1932, he had one-man shows in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Novi Sad. In 1934, he joined in forming the Život group (AKA Group) of Yugoslavian artists.
His woodcut set Blood-soaked Gold (Krvavo zlato) was published in 1937.
He fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War during which time his woodcut set Foreign Freedom (Za sloboda) was published in 1939. The next year he published his collection Sketches, Drawing, And Studies (Skice, crtezi, studije) in Spain.
In 1946, his drawings Partisans (Partizani) were awarded the Yugoslav Federation Prize for Graphics, and in 1949, his oil work Witnesses of Horror (Svedoci užasa), the Yugoslav Federation Prize for Painting. In 1951–1953 he belonged to the Independents (Samostalni).
In 1945, he joined the faculty, as full-professor, of the "Academy of Fine Arts" in Belgrade, and, from 1959 to 1963, he was Dean of the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Belgrade, after the Academy had been incorporated into the University.
From 1957 to 1960, he was president of the Yugoslav Federation of Artists. In the years following World World War II, he had one-man shows in Belgrade (1953 and 1959), Kragujevac, Čačak, Niš, Skopje, Zemun, and Sombor, and in Berlin in 1963. The inventory of his work lists some 300 paintings, among them the monumental as well as the small and intimate.
More than 60 are in museums in the country and abroad, about as many are owned by government institutions and enterprises, and the rest are in private collections.
Over 1000 drawings are listed. Most of them are in museum collections.
The few surviving complete, first-print sets of Blood-soaked Gold and Foreign Freedom are owned by museums in Belgrade. He has three mosaics, one at the War Memorial in Ivanjica, a second on the façade of a public building in Kragujevac, and the third at the Holocaust Museum in Paris.
Djordje Andrejević-Kun died on 17 January 1964, in Belgrade.
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]
He is frequently cited as one of known Yugoslav painters, and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. From 1941 to 1945, he was a member of the "Yugoslav National Liberation" forces. In 1950, he was elected a corresponding member of the "Academy of Arts and Sciences", and in 1958, a full member.