Afan Ramić
In memoriam
Participation: X Sarajevo Art Salon
Affan Ramić (Derventa, 5 June 1932 – Sarajevo, 19 May 2015) was a painter from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed the School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo and the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he studied under Professor Marko Čelebonović. He undertook specialist training in Paris in 1963 and Prague in 1967–1968.
He worked in collage, and one period of his practice featured filigree-like drawing inspired by the ornamentation of old Bosnian jewellery. He received the Sixth of April Award of the City of Sarajevo, the Golden Plaque of Humanism of the International League of Humanists and other recognitions. He became a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005. During the 1970s he served as President of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Associations of Fine Artists of Yugoslavia.
