Jurij Šubic

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Jurij Šubic

Jurij Šubic (born April 13, 1855 in Pölland (now Poljane nad Škofjo Loko ), Upper Carniola , † September 8, 1890 in Leipzig ) was a Slovenian painter , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Jurij Šubic was the son of the Slovenian painter Štefan Šubic (1820-1884), among whose ancestors there were other painters. Jurij's brother Janez (1850–1889) was also a painter. Jurij first learned from 1867 to 1872 in his father's workshop before continuing his training with the Nazarene Janez Wolf (1825-1884) in St. Vitus (today the Šentvid district of Ljubljana ) in 1872/73 . From 1874 to 1879 he studied with interruptions at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger . The interruptions particularly affected his military service, which he performed in Trieste and Bosnia .

In 1879/1880 Šubic lived in Athens , where, on the mediation of Griepenkerl, he decorated the neo-Renaissance palace Iliou Melathron for the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann ; today it houses the Numismatic Museum . Declining an offer from Athens for a professorship, he instead went to Paris at the invitation of Vojtěch Hynais , where, interrupted by visits to his homeland and summer painting stays in Normandy, he stayed for the next few years, including for Hynais, Václav Brožík and Mihály von Munkácsy was active. A larger independent commission was the ceiling painting in the cabaret Le Tambourin after its move to Montmartre .

Memorial stone on the Leipzig South Cemetery

After 1885 he was also active in Slovenia and Styria . He took part in the design of the newly built State Museum in Ljubljana (today the Slovenian National Museum in Ljubljana) and furnished numerous churches.

In the spring of 1889 he went back to Paris. Here he fell seriously ill with influenza . Recovered, in August 1890 he took on an order to paint the ballroom in the manor house of the Raschwitz estate near Leipzig, newly built by the architect Peter Dybwad . During this work the disease returned and he died of a heart attack at the age of 35 in Leipzig . On September 17th, he was buried in the southern cemetery there.

Create

Jurij Šubic's artistic talent was already evident during school when he and a classmate published a “magazine” in fourth grade, which he illustrated. During his studies he received an award for his sheet Gang nach dem Eisenhammer . Even during his military service, he made numerous drawings depicting military life.

His painterly breakthrough came with the picture Before the Hunt , which in 1883 was the first to be recognized by a Slovenian painter in the Paris Salon . Here and also in other pictures his mastery in the treatment of light and shadow, which he found through his plein air painting in Normandy, is shown.

Šubic was also an excellent portrait painter. With his brother Janez Šubic and their teacher Janez Wolf, he is considered one of the most important church painters in Slovenia.

For the 24-volume encyclopedia The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures , the so-called Kronprinzenwerk , he provided illustrations for the volumes Kärnten and Krain , Styria and Coastal Land .

Honors

  • There are Šubic streets named after him and his brother in several Slovenian cities.
  • In 2019, the Slovenian side erected a memorial stone for him on Leipzig's southern cemetery.

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personal data
SURNAME Šubic, Jurij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šubic, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Pölland
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1890
Place of death Leipzig