Matej Sternen
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Matej Sternen was a leading Slovene Impressionist painter.
Matej Sternen in the 1920s
Woman on a Sofa (1914), a 1969 Yugoslav stamp
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
Matej Sternen
…and 1891. After finishing the school in Graz, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1897 he left Vienna for Munich, where he studied at Anton Ažbe's private art school. He lived and worked in the Bavarian capital until Ažbe's death in 1905. Sternen became acquainted with Impressionism already in…
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