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Information for Miha Maleš Gallery visitors

Objavljeno: 11.05.2023
Dear visitors. Miha Maleš Gallery and View Gallery will be closed to visitors from May 12 to June 2, 2023 due to the installation of new exhibitions. New exhibitions are being prepared, namely in the Miha Maleš Gallery an overview exhibition of all 30 artists who exhibited in the View ...

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Oliver Pilić, Pearl Earring, hand-printed woodcut, 2017

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
The graphic work Pearl Earring, in the woodcut technique and printed by hand, is the work of a younger generation Kamnik artist, Oliver Pilić. The latter significantly enters the context of contemporary fine art in the context of both the local and Slovenian art scene and technically intervenes ...

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Lojze Perko, Factory Utok, 1954, o.pl.

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
In the 1950s, more precisely in 1954, the work of the academic painter Lojze Perko (1909-1980) was created, which depicts the Utok factory in Kamnik, when it was nationalized and expanded tremendously from the once small private leather factory of Tone Knaflič. Perko designed the picture from the ...

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Winter motif in art

Objavljeno: 08.12.2021
In Slovene art, Miha Maleš (1903–1987) represents a man who was a true "uomo univerzale" in the field of art and culture, as he was not only engaged in fine arts - painting, graphics and drawing, in which he introduced completely new, modern guidelines, but he was also a messenger of new art, ...

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Anton Koželj, Portrait of a Woman with Children in Slovene National Costume, 1920

Objavljeno: 26.08.2021
The Koželj family is one of the most prominent painting families in Kamnik, which can be traced from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, first with father Matija Koželj, a Nazarene painter, and then with sons Anton and Maks Koželj. Matija and Maks Koželj have already ...

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Fortunat Bergant (1721-1769)

Objavljeno: 12.04.2021
Fortunat Bergant was born in 1721 in Mekinje near Kamnik and died in 1769 in Ljubljana. He belongs to the second generation of Carniolan Baroque painters, and he was only engaged in table painting. He had great support in the nobility of the time (the Codelli and Erberg families), which was also ...

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Dušan Lipovec (1952- 2005)

Objavljeno: 06.04.2021
Painter and publicist Dušan Lipovec was born in Kamnik. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (Ljubljana, 1977, Prof. Andrej Jemec), and continued his studies in Canada. He preserved the picturesque image of Kamnik, with its characteristic Small and Old Castles, in ...

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Stane Cuderman, Carnival Dance, 1930

Objavljeno: 01.03.2021
Painter and graphic artist, born in Kamnik (1895–1946), Prague student and companion of Miha Maleš. The work Dance in the Casino or Carnival Dance is a bourgeois party, most likely a dance in the Casino or hotel Union in Ljubljana. On the far left edge of the picture we recognize famous ...

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Maks Koželj, Mountains with sheep and a sign, around 1935

Objavljeno: 01.03.2021
Maks Koželj (1883–1956) came from a family of painters from Kamnik. In addition to him, his father Matija Koželj and his older brother Anton also painted. There are few authors whose extensive oeuvre speaks with such love for the mountains and with the knowledge and realistic depiction of all ...

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Kamnik artists

Objavljeno: 13.01.2021
In the second floor of the gallery there is a permanent exhibition reflecting Kamnik art history from the 18th till the 20th century, in the fields of sculpture, painting, architecture and photography, from the beginnings of artistic creativity in Kamnik, like the patronage of Josip Nikolaj ...

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