Early Life and Artistic Style Draginja Liza Marić Križanić, born in Kosjerić, Serbia (1905), embarked on an artistic journey marked by profound connections to both her homeland and European avant-garde movements. Her familial roots lay in a lineage of educators—Stamenko Marić, a respected teacher himself, and Jelena Raković—who instilled in Liza a lifelong passion for learning and intellectual curiosity. The disruption caused by the First World War profoundly impacted her formative years; her father’s deployment as a soldier to Salonica severed familial ties, while Liza, alongside Dragoslav…