Ive Šubic
Ive Šubic (23 April 1922 – 29 December 1989) was a Yugoslav painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Šubic was born in the village of Hotovlja near Poljane above Škofja Loka in 1922. He enrolled in the Zagreb Academy of Arts in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. He joined the Partisans in 1941 and participated in the Battle of Dražgoše, the monument to which he later participated in designing.
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- Name
- Ive Šubic
- Born
- 23 April 1922
- Birthplace
- Hotovlja, Slovenia
- Died
- 29 December 1989
- Place of death
- Škofja Loka, Slovenia
- Field
- painting, printmaking, illustrating
- Training
- Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana
- Awards
- Levstik Award
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Serbs and Croats and Slovenes
- Occupation
- writer · painter · printmaker · illustrator · graphic artist
- Fields
- painting · graphics · book illustration · mural
- Education
- University of Ljubljana · Academy of Fine Arts and University of Zagreb
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Ive Šubic (23 April 1922 – 29 December 1989) was a Yugoslav painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Šubic was born in the village of Hotovlja near Poljane above Škofja Loka in 1922. He enrolled in the Zagreb Academy of Arts in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. He joined the Partisans in 1941 and participated in the Battle of Dražgoše, the monument to which he later participated in designing.
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Ive Šubic (1922–1989) was a graphic artist, illustrator and painter, among other activities and a national of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Born in Hotovlja, the graphic artist died in Škofja Loka.
Ive Šubic studied at Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb and University of Ljubljana. The graphic artist was active in book illustration, graphics and mural.
Languages used include Slovene. Ive Šubic received Prešeren Award and Prešeren Fund Awards.
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After the war he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under Gojmir Anton Kos and Božidar Jakac. He graduated in 1948. He is known for his paintings, linocuts and other prints, illustrations, and murals. He died in Škofja Loka in 1989. In 1968 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for the exhibition of his art at the Škofja Loka Museum. In 1979 he won the Grand Prešeren Award for his creative achievements. He also won the Levstik Award for his illustrations five times: in 1949, 1951, 1967 (with Jože Ciuha), 1969, and 1971. The Ive Šubic Art Workshop, held every year in Škofja Loka since 1997, is named after him.
Ive Šubic studied at University of Ljubljana and Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. The recorded working language is Slovene. The field of work recorded is painting, graphics and book illustration. Distinctions recorded are Prešeren Award and Prešeren Fund Awards.
Pred grafičnim slikarskim ateljejem v Črmošnjicah - od leve proti desni: akademski slikar Ive Šubic, ing. arh. Branko Simčič, Ivan Melik-Gojmir in ing. arh. Ignac Gregorač, revija Borec.
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• Name — Ive Šubic • Born — 23 April 1922 • Birthplace — Hotovlja, Slovenia • Died — 29 December 1989 • Place of death — Škofja Loka, Slovenia • Field — painting, printmaking, illustrating • Training — Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana • Works — Paintings, prints, and illustrations • Awards — Levstik Award
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Ive Šubic is recorded as writer, painter, printmaker, illustrator and graphic artist.
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1922
Ive Šubic was born in 1922 at Hotovlja.
1989
Ive Šubic died in 1989 at Škofja Loka.
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Hotovlja.
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Škofja Loka.
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Selected illustrated works
• Uporne Dražgoše (Dražgoše, the Village That Rebelled) by Ivo Zorman, 1978 • Dolga pot (The Long Path) by Kristina Brenk, 1973 • Kos rženega kruha (A Slice of Rye Bread) by Ferdo Godina, 1971 • Mladost v džungli (Youth in the Jungle) by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, 1969 • Tolminski punt (The Peasant Revolt in Tolmin) by France Bevk, 1968 • Spomini na deda in druge zgodbe (Memories of Grandfather and Other Stories) by Josip Jurčič, 1967 • Jugoslavija (Yugoslavia), by France Planina 1967 • Smeh skozi solze (Laughter through Tears) by France Bevk, 1959 • Kralj Matjaž reši svojo nevesto (King Matthias Saves His Bride) by Mile Klopčič, 1951 • Nejček by Zoran Hudales, 1949
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- 1.Slovene Biographical Lexicon site.
- 2.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of Prešeren Foundation Awards recipient
- 3.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipient
- 4.The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site.
- 5.Ive Šubic Colony, Škofja Loka on the Culture.si site, Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport site
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