Janez Lenassi

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Stein 7174 (1988) by Janez Lenassi in the Damnatz sculpture garden
Janez Lenassi: Abstract Composition, 1959 (Donaupark, Vienna)

Janez Lenassi (born July 3, 1927 in Opatija , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † January 26, 2008 in Piran , Slovenia ) was a Yugoslav or Slovenian sculptor .

life and work

Janez Lenassi studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with Peter Loboda from 1947 to 1951. From 1953 to 1955 he taught at a secondary school in Radovljica and he further developed his artistic skills with Boris Kalin. From 1957 to 1959 he taught at the primary school in Ljubljana . In 1959 he took part in the first sculpture symposium in St. Margarethen . In 1966 he participated again in this sculpture symposium and between 1972 and 1976 he worked on the art project initiated by Karl Prantl on Stephansplatz , which could not take place in Vienna due to objections by certain authorities. With the sculptor Jakob Savinšek he organized the first international sculpture symposium in Slovenia in Kostanjevica na Krki and on the Seča peninsula near Portorož , the Forma Viva sculpture symposium . In 1966 he was awarded the Prešeren Prize and in 1981 the Jakopič Prize for Fine Arts. In 1982 he was appointed professor; but he never accepted the call. He passed on his knowledge to the students of the Kornari International Summer Academy for Sculpture in Marušiči from 1980 to 1990 and from 1985 to 1989 he was President of the United Society of Artists of Yugoslavia . From 1986 to 1996 he was a member of the committee of the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and from 1987 to 1989 President of the United Society of Slovenian Artists.

literature

  • Waterline. Exhibition for the international symposium for stone sculptors in the Wannsee lido in Berlin with sculptures, drawings and photographs of the participants. Claudia Ammann, Makoto Fujiwara, Isolde Haug, Janez Lenassi, Peter Paszkiewicz, Michael Schoenholtz. [11.6. - 7.8.1988], Haus am Waldsee. Organization: International symposium for stone sculptors in the Wannsee lido, Haus am Waldsee; West, Berlin 1988
  • Louis Niebuhr : European sculpture symposium. Shapes for Europe - stone shapes: Miguel Ausili , Italy (Tuscany); Ioanna Filippidu , Greece (Thrace); Janez Lenassi, Yugoslavia (Slovenia); Jiri Seifert , Czechoslovakia (Prague); Werner Stötzer , Germany (Brandenburg); Louis Niebuhr, Germany (Lower Saxony). August 25, 1991 to October 6, 1991; Syke , La Chartre Street. (Catalog; Ed .: Stadt Syke), Syke 1991, 36 p. M. 26 fig.

Works (selection)

  • Abstract Composition (1959) in the Donaupark (Vienna)
  • Monument on the Freedom Mountain (1965), Ilirska Bistrica
  • Stein 7174 (1988) in the Damnatz sculpture garden
  • Sculpture in the park of the St. Virgil Education Center in Salzburg

Participation in sculpture symposia

right: Untitled , International Sculpture Symposium Shapes for Europe - Shapes from Stone in Syke (1991); left: Genesis by Miguel Ausili

He participated in numerous sculpture symposiums and was an advocate for these events.

Web links

Commons : Janez Lenassi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forma viva Portorož 2007. International Symposium of Sculpture. Retrieved July 19, 2010 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lenassi, Janez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Slovenian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Opatija , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2008
Place of death Piran