Hinko Smrekar

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Hinko Smrekar (13 July 1883 – 1 October 1942) was a Slovenian painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, graphic artist, and illustrator. Smrekar was a member of the Vesna Art Club, which was active in Vienna, and a partisan in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. The Hinko Smrekar Primary School in Ljubljana and the Hinko Smrekar Prize in Celje, the highest Slovenian award in the field of illustration (since 1993), are named after him. As a collaborator of the Slovene Liberation Front, he was hastily shot by the Italian fascists in the vicinity of a gravel pit used for summary executions (now the Gramozna Jama Memorial). At the time, he was living in the "Villa Kurnik" on Alešovčeva Street (No 38) in Šiška. He is buried in the Memorial Park of Fallen Combatants and Hostages at Žale.

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Biography Smrekar was born in Ljubljana. After the 1895 earthquake, Smrekar's house collapsed due to instability, and his family moved several times afterwards. The Smrekars lived for a while in Kranj, where his father, who worked as a postman in Kranj, died in 1906. Smrekar was a gifted child and already in grammar school he achieved a reputation as a master artist. He was also a diligent student and enrolled at the Innsbruck Law School in 1901. He lasted 4 semesters at law school, but the day before his first national exam, he sold all his books out of fear and drank the proceeds. This was a turning point in his life, at which he decided to dedicate his life to art. Although he never completed his academic education, he acquired extensive knowledge in various humanities and was also a polyglot. In 1903, the Vesna Art Club was founded, which Hinko also joined. There he met Ivan Cankar and made several covers for his books. In 1905, he began publishing his satirical witty drawings in the Ljubljana humorous newspaper Osa. In that year, Smrekar, together with Maksim Gaspari, visited the art centre of Munich for the first time, where he…Citește mai mult

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Work and meaning Smrekar's work is extremely colourful. He worked with all motifs, in all techniques, serious, sad, grotesque, funny, portraits, landscapes, romantic, naturalistic, national and international. He enjoyed using themes from folk tales and folk celebrations, and looked for genre motifs from the lives of ordinary people, especially peasants. He had already resisted the war between 1914 and 1918, both personally and artistically. Two of the greatest works of Slovenian graphic art were produced in those years - the cycle of anti-war caricatures Črnovojnik ("The Black Warrior"), in which the artist humorously described his inter-war experiences, and the illustrations of Martin Krpan. These were the first illustrations of the story, which set the example for later ones, such as those by Tone Kralj. From 1939 to 1942, he worked on the collective experience of war psychosis.

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Sources Karel Dobida, 1957: Hinko Smrekar. Ljubljana: COBISS Karel Dobida:"Smrekar, Hinko". Slovenski biografski leksikon. Slovenska biografija. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, 2013 (online version) Filip Kalan: "Likovna umetnost - Iz zapiskov o slovenski vojni grafiki", Novi svet 5, št. 9 (1950) (Dokument v zbirki Digitalne knjižnice Slovenije online version) OBL Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon - Smrekar, Hinko (Henrik), 1883-1942 Graphiker und Maler

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Obrazi slovenskich pokrajin: Smrekar, Hinko Dnevnik70let: Smrekarjeve karikature in tožbe by Darinka Kladnik, 17 Dec 2011