Mina Karadžić

Wilhelmina "Mina" Karadžić-Vukomanović (Вилхелмина "Мина" Караџић-Вукомановић; 12 July 1828, in Vienna – 12 June 1894, in ibidem) was an Austrian-born Serbian painter and writer.

She was born in Vienna, the daughter of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and the Viennese Ana Maria Kraus. From her early years she received comprehensive education, starting with reading and writing in German language, and continuing with French, Italian, Serbian, and English. She studied visual arts with the Austrian painter Friedrich Schilcher, as well as in various galleries in Vienna, Venice, Dresden, and Berlin.

In the early 1850s Karadžić worked on translating a collection of Serbian folk poems to German language. In 1852, the collection was finalized and published as Gusle, Serbische Nationallieder by Ludwig August von Frankl. In 1854 Karadžić published Volksmarchen der Serben, a German translation of Serbian folk tales and proverbs collected by her father Vuk, with the introduction by Jacob Grimm.

In 1858 she married Aleksa Vukomanović in St Michael's Cathedral in Belgrade. In 1859 she gave birth to their son Janko Vukomanović and lost her husband to illness when the child was three months old.

Karadžić died at the age of 65, in Vienna.

Painting
Mina Karadžić's painting is divided into two periods, the first under the influence of classicism, and the second under the influence of romanticism. Her best known paintings include
 * Self-Portrait
 * Portrait of brother Dimitrije
 * An old woman with a white cap
 * Marko Kraljevic with a mace
 * Marko Kraljevic sa šestopercem
 * Young black man
 * Montenegrin
 * Greek hero
 * Bosnjak with red Sarough
 * Portrait of a girl with a red scarf
 * The girl in a plaid dress
 * Portrait of a Woman
 * Mladi Crnogorac, Mina Karadžić.jpg old man with long hair
 * The young man with a beard