He was born on 15 February 1898 in
Prijedor in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a house of Orthodox priests. As a young man, he belonged to the
Young Bosnia Movement where he was, as a juvenile pupil of the
Tuzla's high school, sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was also shortly engaged adventurously in national interests at the end of the
First World War. In the beginning of 1918 he went to
Vienna to study
sculpture and at the beginning of the 1920s he enjoyed a turbulent bohemian life in
Paris, where he also devoted himself to study. He received his scholarships from dr. Djurica Djordjević and his wife Krista, who he became acquainted and afterward became friends with. They were big defenders of the modern art in between-the-wars
Yugoslavia and their house became one of the most known meeting places of artists, writers, young
left-wing politicians and intellectuals. He indulged in Viennese revolutionary movements before the black-yellow monarchy's downfall. Being in the midst of social happenings, he returned to
Bosnia immediately after the end of the war where he was engaged in creation of first
Yugoslavia, with all his achieved political and penal reputation, belligerence and revolutionary mood. He commanded the committee and irregular troops which established order in a condition of a total anarchy, just before arrival of the regular
Alexander the Great's liberation army which was arriving in its epochal
Thessaloniki inrush. With Dragiša Vasić and
Vladislav Ribnikar he traveled through the
Soviet Union in 1927. During the
Second World War he lived in
Belgrade with his family and when the war was over he found out that his brother, Dr.
Mladen Stojanović, died. His brother was a legendary national hero and one of the key persons of
Josip Broz Tito's partisan movement in western
Bosnia. After his brother's death, Stojanović engaged himself in many functions. He was the chairman of the National Front in
Belgrade, commoner, the secretary of the Association of Painters of
Yugoslavia, the chairman of the Association of Painters of
Serbia, the principal of the
Art Academy, the editor of the magazine "Art", and a member of Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences in 1950. He died in
Belgrade in 1960, leaving behind one of the most valuable
sculpture opuses in the Serbian art of the 20th century. For his birthplace
Prijedor he gave a gift of an important part of his artworks. His creations can also be seen in the gallery Pavlo Beljanski in Novi Sad, the National museum and the Museum of modern art in Belgrade. In memorial buildings in
Belgrade,
Vojvodina,
Montenegro and
Republic of Srpska in
Bosnia-Herzegovina there are some of his most important monumental compositions. ==Bibliography==