About Moša Pijade
Moša Pijade (Cyrillic: Мoшa Пијаде, alternate English transliteration Moshe Piade; 3 January 1890 [O.S. 22 December 1889] – 15 March 1957), was a Serbian and Yugoslav painter, journalist, Communist Party politician, World War II participant, and a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito. He was the full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. During the Interwar period in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Pijade was an accomplished painter, but spent almost 15 years in prison because of his communist activity. He took active role in the People's Liberation War and was one of main political leaders of the Partisans. After the WWII and creation of socialist Yugoslavia, he became a prominent politician and was the president of the Federal Parliament from 1954 until his death. == Life and career == Pijade was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, on 3 January 1890 [O.S. 22 December 1889] into a family of Sephardic Jewish origin. His father Samuilo Pijade was a rich merchant. In 1905, Pijade started studying painting at the State School of Arts and Crafts in Belgrade, under the tutorship of painter Rista Vukanović. Soon, he left the school and moved to a private painting school run by Paško Vučetić. He helped Vučetić with the decoration of the walls of the National Bank of Serbia building.
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