Фрау Бета

A documentary novel about Babette Bachmayer, a painter of Bavarian origin who took the Serbian name Beta Vukanović from her husband, the painter Risto Vukanović. It interweaves two stories and two settings: the city, to which the trained painter belongs, and the countryside, represented by a naturally gifted milkmaid from Vinča, whose lives are linked by a seemingly chance painting project. The narrative follows Serbia's rises and falls from the end of the 19th century to 1972, through three regimes: the Kingdom of Serbia, where King Milan Obrenović bowed to a foreign woman in parliament in 1898, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and socialist Yugoslavia.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

202 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 1890s–1972

First published

2025 by HERAedu

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788679562265 (original)