Gojmir Anton Kos

Gojmir Anton Kos

Infobox Artist
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name = Gojmir Anton Kos


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birthdate = birth date|1896|01|24
location = Gorizia, Austria-Hungary
deathdate = Death date and age|1970|05|22|1896|01|24
deathplace = Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
nationality = Slovenian
field = painting
training = Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb
movement = Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Color realism, Poetic realism
works = "Girl with an Accordion",
"Self-Portrait",
monumental compositions from Slovene history:
"The Enthronement in the Gosposvetsko polje",
"The Defeat of Rebellious Peasants near Krško"
patrons =
influenced by = Ferdinand Hodler, Georges Braque
influenced =
awards = awd|Prešeren Award|1947|Girl with an Accordionawd|Prešeren Award|1950|Self-Portrat

Gojmir Anton Kos (January 24 1896 - May 22 1970) was a Slovene academic painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.

Biography

Gojmir was born in the town of Gorizia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Italy), where his father, the renowned historian Franc Kos from the vicinity of Škofja Loka in Carniola, taught at the prestigious State Gymnasium. His mother was a Friulian from the Austrian Littoral. Gojmir's older brother Milko later also became a famous historian and rector of the University of Ljubljana.

Gojmir studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with professors Rudolf Bacher and Julius Schmidt. Due to the collapse of Austria-Hungary, he finished his last semester at the College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, from where he graduated in 1919. At that time he also passed an examination qualifying him as a professor of drawing. In 1924 he moved to Ljubljana where at first he taught at secondary schools. After World War II he was appointed full professor of drawing at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana where he stayed until his retirement in 1962. From 1948 to the spring of 1949 he also directed the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

Work

The paintings of G. A. Kos were mainly landscapes, portraits, monumental scenes from Slovene history (exhibited in the Slovenian presidential palace) [cite web|url=http://www.up-rs.si/up-rs/uprs-eng.nsf/dokumentiweb/predsedniska-palaca?OpenDocument|title=Presidential Palace |work=President of the Republic of Slovenia |accessdate=2008-04-07] , figurative compositions and still lifes, in which he especially excelled. His favorite medium was oil on canvas although in his first years he also created some book illustrations, some posters and furniture. In his works he emphasized light contrasts and color over the reality of images.

Gojmir Anton Kos won numerous prizes for his work, among others the Prešeren Award for his oil painting "Dekle s harmoniko" ("Girl with an Accordion") in 1947 and another one for his oil painting "Avtoportret" ("Self-Portrait") in 1950. In that year he also exhibited at the Venice Biennale. On December 6 1949 he became a member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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