Jakov Brdar
Jakov Brdar (born 22 April 1949) is a Slovene sculptor of Bosnian descent. He is the author of many public statues and sculptures in Ljubljana. In 1998, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for the sculpture group Pridiga ptičem (Sermon to the Birds, 1997).
Jakov Brdar
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- Name
- Jakov Brdar
- Born
- 22 April 1949
- Birthplace
- Livno, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- Sculptor
- Nationality
- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Education
- University of Ljubljana
- Honours
- Prešeren Fund Awards
- Languages
- Slovene · Bosnian
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Brdar studied sculpturing on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He graduated in the class of professor Dušan Tršar in 1975, and completed specialised study in 1979. He has also lived and worked in Paris and Berlin. Brdar's statues Adam and Eve, Satyr and Prometheus are on display at the Butchers' Bridge in Ljubljana city centre. His statue of the general Rudolf Maister is visible in the park next to the main bus station in Ljubljana. He also created a statue of "Saint Joseph in the Egipt". The statue stands in front of the St. Stanislaus Institute in Ljubljana-Šentvid. The gallery in Piran has his sculpture Pegasus (1990). In 1990 and 1991, he exhibited at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Railway station Ljubljana in Slovenia
Architecture: completed on 18 April 1848 by a typical Vienna railway station plan Sculpture: Jakov Brdar (1949-) Photo: Nils Öberg
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• Name — Jakov Brdar • Born — 22 April 1949 • Birthplace — Livno, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia • Occupation — Sculptor
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Jakov Brdar, born in 1949, is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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