In this house the artist spent the early years and the last years of life, and on 28 August 1942 he was taken to the scaffold.
The house was built in 1867 by Paja Nikolić for the needs of the brewery. In the late 19th century, uncle of Sava Sumanović, Dragutin Grčić, bought the house from P. Nikolic.
Young Family Šumanović moved into this house in Vinkovci, when Milutin Šumanović retired. Sava was four years old at that time. Family house of Šumanović, in which the gallery was housed, was rented for the purposes of the court.
Originally, two adjacent sites belonged to the house with economic part of household and facilities for servants. After Šumanović had returned from Paris, in 1930, the house was adapted for the needs of artists. All the furniture and objects exhibited in the house belonged to the family. At the time of nationalization after the Second World War, Persida Šumanović managed to keep the house and fully preserve her son’s studio where he had painted over 600 paintings. Mrs. Persis hosted Tito in 1965, and she died in this house in 1968.
Family Šumanović is the old prominent merchant family from Šid. Sava Šumanović’s father, Milutin (1862-1937), was a forestry engineer by profession. In1885 he became the manager of the Forestry Office in Vinkovci. He married Persida Tubić (1875-1968) in 1894, the daughter of Save Tubić, a prominent merchandiser from Šid. Sava was their only child.
Memorial house was declared a cultural monument of a great significance.
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