Anton Ažbe (
30 May 1862 –
6 August 1905) was a
Slovene painter and
teacher.
He was
born in a peasant family in the small Carniolan village of Dolenčice
near Škofja Loka
in Austria-Hungary
(today, in Slovenia
).
At first
he studied art in Ljubljana
under the supervision of Janez Wolf who introduced him to the style of the
Nazarene movement.
At the age
of twenty he went to Vienna
, where he
attended the Akademie der bildenden Künste
. In 1884 he moved to Munich
.
Initially
he attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts
, but in 1885 he left it in order to join the
private painting school of Ludwig
von Löfftz.
In 1892,
he established his own school which soon became known under the
name of Azbe-Schule and became one of the most renowned
painting schools for young artists in the Bavarian
capital. Several famous painters, particularly those who
arrived to Munich from
Slavic
countries, attended Ažbe's school, including
Wassily Kandinsky,
Alexej von Jawlensky,
Rihard Jakopič and
Nadežda Petrović.
Ažbe was a renowned painter himself, although he created relatively
few paintings. He died in Munich in 1905.
Famous pupils
Other famous pupils who attended Ažbe's school in Munich
include:
References
- Ambrožič, Katarina: Wege zur Moderne und die Ažbe-Schule in
München (Recklinghausen: Bongers, 1988) ISBN 3-7647-0388-1
- Fäthke, Bernd: Im Vorfeld des Expressionismus.
Anton Azbe und die Malerei in München und Paris
(Wiesbaden: Verlag des Instutes für Bildende Kunst, 1988) ISBN 3-926899-01-8
- Tršar, Marijan: Anton Ažbe (Ljubljana: Založba Park,
1991)
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