Anton Ažbe
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Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in V
Anton Ažbe, 1904 photograph
Self-portrait, c. 1886
The Harem, the last known work by Ažbe. His opus magnum Odalisque has been lost (its existence attested by a single photograph made in 1902).
The Village Choir, around 1900
Matej Sternen
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Matej Sternen was a leading Slovene Impressionist painter.
Anton Ažbe
…that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists (Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters (Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma…
Matej Sternen in the 1920s
Woman on a Sofa (1914), a 1969 Yugoslav stamp