National Gallery of Slovenia

The Slovenian National Gallery

The Slovenian National Gallery ( Slovenian : Narodna galerija Slovenije ) is an art museum specializing in painting and sculpture in Prešernova Cesta 20 (a street named after the Slovenian national poet France Prešeren ) in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana .

history

The building that currently houses the National Gallery was built in 1896 as the “Narodni dom” ( “People's House” ) according to plans by the Prague architect František Edmund Škabrout . The appearance of the building is based on that of the Prague National Theater . It served as a venue for various Slovenian associations, and the Sokol Association's gymnasium was on the ground floor . The facade is designed in the neo-renaissance style. In 1993 the building was expanded to include a post-modern wing designed by the Slovenian architect Edvard Ravnikar. The two parts of the building were connected to one another in 2001 by a glass connecting wing and an entrance hall designed by the architects Jurij Sadar and Boštjan Vuga.

The initiative to establish the collection goes back to Ivan Hribar , who was mayor of the then Ljubljana and now Ljubljanas between 1896 and 1910, as well as the writer and historian Peter von Radics . The year 1918 is considered to be the official founding of the institution. The collection was initially housed in some rooms in the Kresijska palača ( "district palace" , a neo-baroque kuk administration building) and in 1925 it moved into rooms in the current building. In 1946 the collection was nationalized.

collection

The focus of the collection includes Slovenian paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as paintings from all over Europe.

• 

  Antonio Bellucci (1654–1726): Rinaldo and Armida

• 

  Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842): Portrait of Elisabeth Isabella Mniszech , 1797

• 

  Giuseppe Tominz (1790–1866): Self-portrait , around 1830

• 

  Pavel Künl (1817–1871): Fischerplatz in Ljubljana , 1847

• 

  Jurij Šubic (1855–1890): Before the Hunt , 1883

• 

  Anton Ažbe (1862–1905): Zamorka , 1895

• 

  Ivan Grohar (1867–1911): Apple Blossom , around 1907

• 

  Ivana Kobilca (1861–1926): self-portrait , around 1910

List of artists who are represented with works in the museum:

Anton Ažbe Giovanni Baglione Franc Bernekar Renato Birolli Massimo Campigli Giovanni Andrea Carlone Anton Čebej Ladislao de Gauss Lojze Dolinar Frans II Francken Friedrich Gauermann

Ivan Grohar Rihard Jakopič Matija Jama Abraham Janssens Jacob Jordaens Jean Jouvenet Ivana Kobilca Matevž langus Filipp Malyavin Jožef Petkovšek

Jacob Pynas Gerard Seghers Matej stars Janez Šubic Jurij Šubic Giuseppe Tominz Ivan Vavpotič Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Cornelis de Wael Ivan Zajec

literature

• Anica Cevc; Emilijan Cevc: Slovenian Impressionists and their predecessors from the National Gallery in Ljubljana , Austrian Gallery , Vienna, 1979
• Katarina Ambrozić: Paths to Modernity and the Ažbe School in Munich , Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1988

Web links

Commons : National Gallery of Slovenia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about the Slovenian National Gallery in the catalog of the German National Library
• National Gallery website (Slovenian and English)

Footnotes

Coordinates: 46 ° 3 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 14 ° 30 ′ 0.2 ″  E