- Avgust Černigoj
Avgust Černigoj (
August 24 ,1898 , –November 17 ,1985 ) was a Slovene painter, known for hisavant-garde experiments in Constructivism.He was born in
Trieste , then part of theAustrian-Hungarian Empire . He finished Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Trieste, continuing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Later on, he attended theBauhaus school of crafts and fine arts inWeimar , which had a profound impact on his development as an artist, having come into contact withAbstraction , theRussian avant-garde and particularly Constructivism through the works and teachings ofWassily Kandinsky , who brought it fromRussia .He returned to
Slovenia , where he became friends with the avant-garde poetSrečko Kosovel . In 1924, he prepared the first Constructivist exhibition in Slovenia, held in the premises of the Secondary Technical School inLjubljana . The exhibits included architectural models,relief s andsculpture s, as well as parts of machines, overalls and politically artisticslogan s.In 1925, he became a political
exile due to his socially critical and provocative art and was forced to return to Trieste. There, he co-operated with an avant-garde stage managerFerdo Delak in the forming of an international avant-garde magazine called "Tank".Černigoj's main contribution to the Slovene fine arts lies in the introduction of
collage , which broadened the understanding of art and artistic work.He died in
Sežana , Slovenia.External links
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