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Miha Maleš, Park Tivoli in winter, 1940

Objavljeno: 18.01.2019
Beginning in 1934, Maleš famous series of Tivoli, the landscapes of our formerly beautiful park in Ljubljana in various seasons, are beginning to emerge. From a still ordinary motive, Maleš could extract the mood of nature. In front of us, there are trees, barely visible in a snowstorm, set on ...

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Ludwig Hermann, The old Town with the frozen canal, 1852

Objavljeno: 09.01.2019
Ludwig Hermann is a 19th-century German painter (1818-1881) who lived and worked in Berlin for a long time. At the Academy in Berlin was a pupil of the famous German painter Nazarene and the romanticism of G. Schadow. He painted mostly marinas, architecture, old coastal towns, motives from the ...

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The rumbler bell, Bronze, 13th to 16th Century, Kamnik - Mali grad

Objavljeno: 27.12.2018
The rumbler bell is an object intended for making sounds, similar to a small bell. Most common in the High Middle Ages were round tin rumbler bells with a diameter ranging between 1.5 and 3.5 centimetres, which corresponds to the Mali grad example. Round tin rumbler bells were usually ...

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New acquisition: Mojca bakes

Objavljeno: 18.12.2018
Children's play Mojca bakes: in the box are stored scarves for biscuits, stalk, pan, spoon, roller, baking dish, scoop and recipe booklet: Your first recipes; produced probably in the 1960s; produced by Feri Souvan (1919-1974), more famous as a writer of texts and music for Slovenian pop songs. ...

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Faucet, sepiolite, second half of the 19th century

Objavljeno: 13.12.2018
The head of the pipe is carved from a seal foam or sepiolite in the form of an old bearded man with a night cap on the head. At the top of the head is a smoke release. The mouthpiece is made of horn. The faucet is preserved with the accompanying box, which is inside dressed in blue velvet, and ...

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Cribs, wood, wax, plaster, fabric, 18th century

Objavljeno: 12.12.2018
Preserved mansions are from the 18th century and were intended for ecclesiastical purposes. Their specialty is that they are made of different materials. The base of each figurine is a wooden stick, on which the wax made the face, hands and feet of wax, partly from plaster, and they were dressed ...

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Dessert plate, porcelain, around 1910

Objavljeno: 23.11.2018
The plate from Prašnikar's bathing place and the spa in Kamnik, probably a dessert plate, is made of white porcelain, with an oval black sign with the inscription Kopališče Kamnik - Bad Stein, behind the stamp of the manufacturer Josef Böck, Wien. In 1876, the spa and health resort in Kamnik ...

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Chair no. 14, beech wood, around 1910

Objavljeno: 08.11.2018
Michael Thonet (1796-1871) was a man who, through his invention, brought together European and even world countries. His attempts to bend wood began in the 1830s. In 1859, he invented and made a chair no. 14, its most successful sales item. It was designed for mass production and by 1930 it was ...

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Relief with an angel carrying a coat of arms, around 1490

Objavljeno: 05.11.2018
In the already known written documents, the citizens of Kamnik were mentioned for the first time in 1229. An important turning point in the city self-government was the year 1489, when Emperor Friderik III. allowed the Kamnik citizens free election of city judges. After the issue of privilege ...

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The assassination of innocent children, beehive painting, wood, 1869

Objavljeno: 26.10.2018
A biblical motive for the killing of innocent children in Bethlehem is beehive painting. King Herod commissioned the assassination of all the children in Bethlehem, because he wanted to get rid of Jesus from the path, which the wise men from the East labelled him as "the new born king of the ...

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