Marlenka Stupica
Marlenka Stupica (Muck; 17 December 1927 – 17 June 2022) was a Slovene children's book illustrator. She illustrated over one hundred books for children and is considered one of the top Slovene illustrators.
Marlenka Stupica
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- Name
- Marlenka Stupica
- Birth Name
- Marlenka Muck
- Birthplace
- Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Died
- 17 June 2022
- Place of death
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Field
- Drawing, illustrating
- Training
- Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, 1946/47
- Born
- 1927 · Maribor.
- Nationality
- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator · artist
- Fields
- drawing · visual arts · painting · illustration
- Education
- University of Ljubljana
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Marlenka Stupica (Muck; 17 December 1927 – 17 June 2022) was a Slovene children's book illustrator. She illustrated over one hundred books for children and is considered one of the top Slovene illustrators.
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• Name — Marlenka Stupica • Birth Name — Marlenka Muck • Birthplace — Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes • Died — 17 June 2022 • Place of death — Ljubljana, Slovenia • Field — Drawing, illustrating • Training — Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, 1946/47 • Works — Children's books illustrations
Life and work
Life and work
Stupica was born as Marlenka Muck in Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 17 December 1927. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, People's Republic of Slovenia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, where she graduated in 1950. At that time, she also travelled to numerous European countries. She already illustrated as a student. Overall, she illustrated over one hundred children's books in her life, and also worked as a commercial designer and a puppet scenographer. She exhibited in Tokyo, Bratislava, Bologna, and Rome. Her favourite motifs were landscape, water, trees and sky. She illustrated fairy tales by Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, and Ela Peroci, among others. Her daughter Marija Lucija Stupica was also an acclaimed illustrator.
Death
Death
She died in Ljubljana on 17 June 2022 at the age of 94
Identity
Identity
Marlenka Stupica is recorded as having received Prešeren Award, Levstik Award and Prešeren Fund Awards.
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Life and career
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1927
Marlenka Stupica born at Maribor.
2022
Marlenka Stupica died.
Awards
In 1972, Stupica won the Prešeren Foundation Award for her achievements in children's book illustration. She also won the Levstik Award for her illustrations a record six times, in 1950, 1952, 1954, 1959, 1960 and 1970, as well as the same award for lifetime achievement in illustration in 1999. In 2013, she was also bestowed the Prešeren Award for lifetime achievement.
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- 1.Marlenka Stupica: Pravljice lahko potešijo osnovne človeške stiske. MMC RTV Slovenija. 8 February 2013.
- 2.Poslovila se je edinstvena Marlenka Stupica, ena prvih dam slovenske ilustracije. Radiotelevizija Slovenija. 17 June 2022.
- 3.Mladé letá. Bienále ilustrácií Bratislava, Československo, '71 '73. 1975. 2910600.
- 4.Legendary illustrator Marlenka Stupica dies. Slovenian Press Agency (STA). 17 June 2022.
- 5.Government of the Republic of Slovenia. Prešernove nagrade.
- 6.Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site
- 7.Jaklič, Tanja. Prešernovi nagradi Marlenki Stupici in Zorku Simčiču. Delo.si. 7 February 2013.
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