12 Facts About Giuseppe Tominz

Giuseppe Tominz, known as Jozef Tominc, was an Italian-Slovene painter from the Austrian Littoral.

Giuseppe Tominz worked mostly in the cultural milieu of the upper bourgeoisie in the Austrian Illyrian Kingdom.

Giuseppe Tominz was one of the most prominent portraitists of the Biedermeier period.

Giuseppe Tominz worked mostly in the Austrian Littoral, but produced religious paintings in Carniola and in Croatia.

Giuseppe Tominz is considered part of both the Italian and the Slovenian national culture canon.

Giuseppe Tominz was born in Gorizia as the second of eleven children of Ivano Tominz, a dealer in ironware, and his wife Maria Anna of Udine.

Giuseppe Tominz attended a primary school run by Piarists in Gorizia, where he began to learn to paint in the third year.

Giuseppe Tominz received his first training as a painter from the local artist Karel Keber and probably from the painter Franz Caucig.

Giuseppe Tominz later moved back to Gorizia, and finally to his estate in Gradisce nad Prvacino, where he died in 1866.

The style of Giuseppe Tominz's portraits was influenced by late Classicism and by the style of Viennese portrait artists of the Biedermeier period.

Giuseppe Tominz included objects that hint at the profession or the lifestyle of the person depicted.

Giuseppe Tominz is however best known for his oil painting technique, his precise skills of observation and his rapid style.