(b Galicnik, nr Debar, 26 March 1901; d Skopje, 10 April 1964). Macedonian painter. He graduated in 1925 from the Art School in Belgrade, where he had studied under Milan Milovanovic (1876–1946), Ljubomir Ivanovic (1882–1945) and Petar Dobrovic (1890–1942), and in 1927 he began specializing in techniques of wall painting in Paris. There he attended the Ecole des Arts et Métiers (1927–9) and frequented the studio of André Lhote. In 1929 he returned to Belgrade and became a member of the group Oblik. In the 1930s he gradually abandoned portraiture and social issues as subject-matter in favour of painting the Macedonian landscape, which he rendered with somewhat crude brushwork and thick layers of intense colour. During that decade he decorated ecclesiastical and other buildings and worked on the monument Albanian Golgotha (1940) for the Serbian soldiers’ cemetery on the island of Vido (Greece). He moved to Skopje in 1945 and became a professor at the newly established School of Applied Arts. Licenoski exhibited at several one-man and group shows at home and abroad. His style had developed in the context of the Ecole de Paris, which contrasted with the narrative models he had inherited from the Post-Byzantine tradition. In his mature work he introduced the idiom of Expressionism into modern Macedonian art.

• Licenoski, Lazar
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