The academy-trained painter Vladimir Becić studied law in Zagreb, while attending the private painting school of Menci Klement Crnčić and Bela Čikoš-Sesija. He discontinued his studies to leave for Munich. There, in 1906, Becić was first accepted for enrolment into the Academy study program led by Ludwig von Herterich and immediately after that into the painting class of Hugo von Habermann together with Josip Račić, Miroslav Kraljević and Oskar Herman, with whom he formed an informal group then called Die Kroatische Schule , later the Munich circle. The Munich circle played an important role in turning the main currents of Croatian art towards modernism. He graduated in 1909. From 1909 to 1910, he was in Paris, where he attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Becić returned to Zagreb in 1910. From 1913, he ran a private painting school in Belgrade with the painter Jovanović. During World War I, Becić was a correspondent for the journal L'Illustration. He lived in Blažuj near Sarajevo from 1919 to 1923, where he built a house and a studio. Then in 1924 he came to Zagreb, where he was a professor at the Academy of Arts until his retirement in 1947. From 1929, he was a member of the Group of Three (alongside Babić and Miše) and the Group of Four (with Babić, Miše and Vanka). From 1934, Becić was a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He created his earlier paintings during his schooling in Munich. Stylistically speaking, these works are characterized by traditionalism and new Munich academic art. The painter kept his „constructive“ attitude towards paintings throughout his artistic work. Since 1929, he has been active in “The Group of Three” and has been more and more thematically preoccupied with the Bosnian and Dalmatian landscape, in which he emphasizes regional specificities with an expressive gesture. In genre-scenes, on the other hand, he portrays the characters of peasants and fishermen, mostly during everyday activities or scenes related to a meal, while he brings characters from the civic environment in moments of rest and leisure.