Marko Stupar was born in Vodenica, near Bozanski Petrovac, Bosnia, on 11 November 1936. His childhood was marked by war and difficult living conditions. He then took refuge very early in the drawing, crunching in his little notebook the landscapes of the various regions of Yugoslavia in which he stayed until his sixteen years. Then he became an engineer in a machine tool factory, while attending evening classes at the Belgrade School of Fine Arts. In parallel with this instruction, he trained his eye by attending the museums of the capital and discovered with fascination the impressionist masters (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, etc.).
At 28, he decides to live in Paris, in this city that makes him dream so much. It is with wonder that he walks for the first time the grand boulevards, wanders in the gardens, and discovers a vocation for the representation of urban landscapes. He started in Place du Tertre, under a pseudonym, and soon managed to get noticed and exhibited. A great international career began. He received numerous prizes including the Grand Prix of the Taylor Foundation in 2006, and his works have returned to museums in Bosnia, France and the United States. Immensely famous in his country of origin, in France he is one of the last post-impressionist painters. He marks this current by being "The Slavic touch of post-impressionism".