Maksim Sedej
Maksim Sedej (26 May 1909 – 13 May 1974) was a Slovene painter, one of the key figures of the mid-20th-century art scene in Slovenia. Sedej was born in Dobračeva on the northern outskirts of Žiri in 1909. He studied art at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts between 1928 and 1932.
Also recorded as Malesim Sedej
Maksim Sedej
Creator:Maksim Sedej · NOB u delima likovnih umetnika Jugoslavije, Beograd, 1958. · Public domain
- Name
- Maksim Sedej
- Born
- 26 May 1909
- Birthplace
- Dobračeva, Slovenia
- Died
- 13 May 1974
- Place of death
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Field
- painting and illustrating
- Training
- Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Serbs and Croats and Slovenes
- Occupation
- writer · painter · illustrator · graphic artist
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and University of Zagreb
- Honours
- Prešeren Award
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Maksim Sedej (26 May 1909 – 13 May 1974) was a Slovene painter, one of the key figures of the mid-20th-century art scene in Slovenia. Sedej was born in Dobračeva on the northern outskirts of Žiri in 1909. He studied art at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts between 1928 and 1932.
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His work was exhibited amid the selection of Yugoslav art at the Venice Biennale in 1940 and 1954. He worked as a professor at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. He received the Prešeren Award in 1967 for an exhibition of his work shown at the Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art in 1966. He won the Levstik Award for his book illustrations three times: in 1953 for his illustrations for a 1953 edition of One Thousand and One Nights, in 1954 for his illustrations for Bogomir Magajna's collection of stories Racko in Lija (Racko and Lija) and in 1956 for Potovanje v tisočera mesta (Travels to Myriad Towns) by Vitomil Zupan and the traditional Istrian tale Pastirček (The Little Shepherd Boy).
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• Name — Maksim Sedej • Born — 26 May 1909 • Birthplace — Dobračeva, Slovenia • Died — 13 May 1974 • Place of death — Ljubljana, Slovenia • Field — painting and illustrating • Training — Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb • Works — Painting and illustration
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1909
Maksim Sedej born at Dobračeva.
1974
Maksim Sedej died at Ljubljana.
1994
Maksim Sedej, 1909-1974 retrospektiva, 27. XII. 1994-28. II. 1995 is dated 1994.
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- 1.Maksim Sedej on the Fine Arts and Slovenians site. .arnes.si. Retrieved on 18 April 2016.
- 2.Maksim Sedej on the Slovene Biographical Lexicon site. Nl.ijs.si. Retrieved on 18 April 2016.
- 3.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
- 4.The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . Mladinska.com. Retrieved on 18 April 2016.
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