Врнячка-Баня
Miodrag B. Protić was born in Vrnjačka Banja, on 10 May 1922. He finished elementary school in Vrnjačka Banja and high school in Kruševac. He graduated from University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1950. He studied art in Art School of Mladen Josić in 1943—1944 under Jovan Bijelić and Zora Petrović. Protić gained further education in Paris 1953—1954, in Italy and the United States in 1963.