The academic painter Jerolim Miše attended the School of Construction, Craftsmanship and Art in Split from 1908 to 1909, and in 1910 he enrolled at the College of Art in Zagreb. From 1911 to 1913 he studied at the Instituto di Belle Arti in Rome and from 1913 to 1914 at the Academia Internazionale in Florence. From 1917 to 1937, he worked as a drawing teacher at gymnasiums in Krapina, Slavonski Brod and Zagreb, and trained in Vienna in 1919, Munich, Dresden and Berlin in 1922. He stayed in Paris several times. From 1937 to 1941 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and from 1943 to 1961 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 1952, he has been a corresponding member, and since 1961, a regular member of the Yugoslav Academy. He is a member of the “Group Three” (1930 - 1935).

During his studies, Miše travelled through many European cities. In the very beginning of the creation of his artistic expression, Jerolim Miše formed his understanding of art based on the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Ernst Mach. Understanding the creative process as a state of rapture and intoxication, he demanded from the work of art agreement with mental processes, and not similarity with the painted object, which manifested itself in his painting as a combination of art nouveau, symbolism and expressionism. He painted symbolist compositions of art nouveau morphology with emphasized linear stylization and unnatural colors with depictions of characters in convulsive and artificial poses, which reveal body discomfort compatible with the then-current researches of "hysteria". Related to Egon Schiele, he emphasized the psychological impression. Through specific framing, emphasized strokes, non-mimetic colors, painterly neglect of the background and clothes, and careful elaboration of the face and hands as the main bearers of psychological intensity, he achieves a strong expressionistic charge. Later, Miše creates his images using an idiosyncratic impostation of characters and daring color relationships that gradually gain primacy in his works.