ABSTRACT
This Chapter presents an overview of the current state of research on the contextualization of expressionism in Serbian art history and propose a methodological outline for examining expressionism in Belgrade. Studies on modernism dating back to the late sixties and early seventies locate the emergence of expressionism in Serbian art in a short period encompassing several years after the end of the First World War. The common starting point for locating expressionism within the history of art in Serbia was the requirement of a precise chronological and stylistic definition by means of comparison with expressionist ideas and developments in the greater European context. Even though expressionist impulses appeared only sporadically and during a short period in the Belgrade art scene between 1919 and 1921, their manifestation played a significant part in several important processes occurring in the local art scene.
