1. Ivana Kobilca was a Slovene painter, and is considered the most prominent female painter and a key figure of Slovene cultural identity.
11 Facts About Ivana Kobilca
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Ivana Kobilca was a realist painter who studied and worked in Vienna, Munich, Paris, Sarajevo, Berlin, and Ljubljana.
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Ivana Kobilca mostly painted oil paintings and pastels, whereas her drawings are few.
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Ivana Kobilca was a controversial person, criticized for following movements that had not developed further in later periods.
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Ivana Kobilca was born in Ljubljana as a daughter in a wealthy family of a craftsman.
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Ivana Kobilca became an honorary member of Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts.
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Ivana Kobilca is one of Slovene realists, who created their most important paintings in the 1880s.
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Ivana Kobilca's focus was on value, chiaroscuro and draftsmanship; only her pastels were light and rosy.
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Ivana Kobilca, however stayed true to her academic artistic roots; with strong focus on study of value, draftsmanship and realism in oil painting.
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Ivana Kobilca's best known paintings are Kofetarica, 1888; Citrarica, Likarice, 1891; Holandsko dekle, Portret sestre Fani, 1889; and Poletje, 1889.
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Ivana Kobilca's work is on display at all major European galleries.