Boris Kobe
Boris Kobe (9 October 1905 – 3 May 1981) was a Slovene architect, painter, and designer. Kobe was born in Ljubljana in 1905. He studied art at the Department of Architecture at what was then the University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty under Jože Plečnik and graduated in 1929.
Boris Kobe
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- Name
- Boris Kobe
- Born
- 9 October 1905
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Died
- 3 May 1981
- Field
- architecture, painting and illustrating
- Training
- University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty, Department of Architecture
- Spouse
- Valentina Kobe
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Serbs and Croats and Slovenes
- Occupation
- architect · writer · painter · illustrator
- Fields
- architecture
- Education
- University of Ljubljana
- Honours
- Prešeren Award · Župančič Award · Trdina Award
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Boris Kobe (9 October 1905 – 3 May 1981) was a Slovene architect, painter, and designer. Kobe was born in Ljubljana in 1905. He studied art at the Department of Architecture at what was then the University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty under Jože Plečnik and graduated in 1929.
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He married the anatomist Valentina Grošlj with whom he would have five children. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Allach concentration camp. After the war he worked as an architect, painter, and designer in Ljubljana. He died in 1981. In the early 1940s, he arranged the area around Tivoli Pond and the children's playground next to it.
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• Name — Boris Kobe • Born — 9 October 1905 • Birthplace — Ljubljana, Slovenia • Died — 3 May 1981 • Field — architecture, painting and illustrating • Training — University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty, Department of Architecture • Works — Architecture, painting and illustration • Spouse — Valentina Kobe
Awards
He received the Prešeren Award for his architecture, paintings, and designs in 1977. He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Ivan Tavčar's Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicles) in 1952.
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- 1.Burger, Oswald. Der Stollen. Verein Dokumentationsstätte Goldbaher Stollen und KZ Aufkirch. 3–7. 2001. 978-3-86142-087-3.
- 2.Drglin, Zalka. Pozabljena polovica: portreti žensk 19. in 20. stoletja na Slovenskem. Zalozba Tuma d.o.o. 415–418. 2007. 978-961-6682-01-5.
- 3.University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies site
- 4.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
- 5.The Levstik Award at the Mladinska Knjiga press site.
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