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Votive image from Kamnik, 1794

Objavljeno: 17.04.2020
A motive painting, painted on wood, depicts the terrible accident of a young girl, Theresa Beč, in 1794. A simple painter tried to portray the girl's fall as a kind of movie frame. There was an accident in a child's play when Theresa was standing on a rock, following her fall from a rock above a ...

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Painter Ivan Vavpotič and the first Slovenian mark Verigar

Objavljeno: 16.04.2020
Slovenian realist painter Ivan Vavpotič also directed his artistic design to create the first Slovenian mark. Chainsaws are the first Slovenian marks for which the artist mentioned at the end of 1918 contributed sketches. They were printed in Ljubljana and Vienna. In 1919 and 1920 they were in ...

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The story of the popular Kamnik’s polka

Objavljeno: 02.04.2020
Probably the most popular song about Kamnik, and so to speak, the Kamnik anthem, is a song called the Kamniška polka. The author of both the lyrics and the melody is the musician Andrej Blumauer, who was born in 1932 in Graz, Austria. They soon moved to Ljubljana, where he spent his childhood ...

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The story of the popular flowers "murke"

Objavljeno: 27.03.2020
Murke are flowers related to orchids. In Slovenia we have three basic ones - red, black and one from Kamnik region, which is the only endemic. Her home is mainly in Krvavec and the Kamnik Alps. The Murke’s most celebrated the Avsenik Waltz Where the Murke Blossom. Slavko Avsenik wrote the ...

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