He was born in Jabucje (near Valjevo) in 1921.
He has started sculpting in 1958.
He lives and works in Jabucje.

Closeness to nature and people is evident in the choice of material. He looks at myth and likewise  chooses wood that itself has own history and related legend. Black oak that he dredges from the peat-bogs near the Kolubara river is very ancient, sturdy and powerful. It possesses its objective value. Time, water and soil have made it as they made people whose figures are carved and cut out of it. In both case we are witnessing life, suffering and new procreation.

Sculptures (full plastics and relief forms) made by Dragisa Stanisavljevic are rooted in and supported by myth, folk stories and legends. Mythical view involves fluid and movable images and contours; its outlines are sturdier and motivations clearer. When experienced, it does not allow strict individuality, nor does it know shady modelling or richness of forms, but only accepts  the value of volumes and their composition. The figure is rightly measured and frontally placed, and therefore close to the world of the primitive and archaic expression.