Jacob Savinšek

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Sculpture made of Kirchheim shell limestone (1961), sculpture symposium Kaisersteinbruch , Gaubüttelbrunn
Signs of the 20th Century (1960), Danube Park in Vienna

Jakob Savinšek (born February 4, 1922 in Kamnik , Yugoslavia , † August 17, 1961 in Kirchheim , Lower Franconia ) was a Slovenian sculptor, painter and poet.

Life

Jakob Savinšek spent his youth in Kamnik and after graduating from high school in Ljubljana , he started studying medicine at the University of Ljubljana. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he studied art with Rihard Jakopič and was tutored in the sculpture by Karla Bulovec Mrak. During the Second World War and the occupation of an area of Yugoslavia , the so-called Ljubljana Province, by Italy, he was imprisoned in Ljubljana Castle for collaborating with the Osvobodilna Fronta (Liberation Front), a resistance organization. In 1942 he was sent to the Italian concentration camp Gonars , where he stayed until the surrender of Italy on September 8, 1943. Then he decided to join the Slovensko domobranstvo , an anti-communist and conservative Catholic military organization that supported the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS in the fight against the Osvobodilna Fronta. Before the end of the war he deserted, which ensured him lenient treatment from the Tito regime .

Between 1945 and 1949 he studied sculpture with Boris Kalin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In the 1950s he was one of the most famous sculptors of the young generation in Slovenia, together with Drago Tršar , Boris and Zdenko Kalin . He continued his artistic studies in Vienna, Italy and Switzerland.

In the late 1950s he had a dispute with the most recognized sculptor of the time, Stojan Batič . He then founded his own group of artists, which was not only made up of young and talented, visually oriented artists, but also of writers and actors such as Dino Radojević , Andrej Hieng and Herbert Grün .

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In his visual arts, Savinšek mostly opted for figurative portraits and nudes , which gave an insight into the psyche of those depicted. At the beginning of his career he was influenced by traditional Slovenian expressionism , especially the work of France Kralj , which inspired him to develop his own style in which he played with the volume of the sculptures. He also created watercolors , graphics and illustrations.

His most famous sculptures are those by Julius Kugy in the Trenta Valley near the town of Bovec and by Ivan Tavčar in Visoko, as well as the War and Peace Monument in Celje . He was also known as a book illustrator and illustrated the books of Slavko Grum , Miran Jarc and Alojz Gradnik .

Savinšek also wrote poems himself, mostly about his youth, which he did not, however, publish himself. His manuscripts are kept in the National and University Library of Slovenia . The first selection of his poems was published in 2003 by the literary magazine KUD Logos, published by the philosopher Gorazd Kocijančič .

Sculpture symposia

In 1960 he took part as a stone sculptor in the sculpture symposium in St. Margarethen in Austria with Karl Prantl , who had founded the first such symposium in 1959 in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland with others, which he became the starting point for numerous sculpture symposia all over the world.

In 1961 Savinšek and Janez Lenassi , who had participated in the first symposium in St. Margarethen in 1959, organized such a symposium in Slovenia in Kostanjevica na Krki and on the Seča peninsula near Portorož , the sculpture symposium Forma Viva . This symposium has been held every two years since then. In 2007, the symposium was conferred on Lenassi, who last chaired it before he died at the age of 39.

Savinšek died in 1961 in Kirchheim near Würzburg , where he met with other sculptors such as Hermann Baumann and Menashe Kadishman to take part in the first international sculpture symposium in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kaisersteinbruch sculpture symposium in Gaubüttelbrunn .

Works (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jakob Savinšek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Taras Kermauner: Skupinski portret z Dušanom Pirjevcem. ZPS, Ljubljana 2002, p. 159.
  2. ↑ a b Information on sloart.sie . Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  3. ↑ Jutta Birgit Wortmann: Sculpture Symposia: Origin - Development - Change. Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-631-55273-4 , p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Savinšek, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav sculptor, painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamnik , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1961
Place of death Kirchheim (Lower Franconia)