Ivan Vurnik
Ivan Vurnik | |
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Born | Vienna University of Technology | 1 June 1884
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | Cooperative Business Bank |
Ivan Vurnik (1 June 1884 – 8 April 1971) was a
Life
He was born in an artisan's family in the Upper Carniolan town of Radovljica, Austro-Hungarian Empire, present-day Slovenia. His father was a rather wealthy stonemason and Ivan was sent to school first to Kranj and then to Ljubljana.
Vurnik graduated
During the
Work
In October 1912, Vurnik was employed by the Ludwig Baumann. He renovated the interior of the parish church in Bled in the same year and in 1913–15 bishopric chapel in Trieste.
Vurnik's search of Slovene "National Style" begun after the
In the late 1920s he turned to a purely
In 1919, Vurnik managed to establish a department of architecture within the Technical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. Upon his invitation, the great Slovene architect Jože Plečnik became one of its founding faculty.
Nevertheless, a rival relationship developed between the two. Vurnik thought it was Plečnik's influence in the conservative circles of local Slovenian policy-makering that prevented him to carry into effect his more functionalist projects. Another reason for the antagonism between the two architect might have also derived from their different political ideology, since Plečnik was a conservative and fervent
After 1925, he devoted his time mostly to teaching. He continued to draw architectural and
In 1965, Vurnik renovated the Slovenian national Catholic shrine at Brezje, thus briefly returning to the "National Style" which he had abandoned earlier in his career.
Awards
- In 1961, Vurnik was awarded Pechtl Award in Vienna[4]
- In 1966, Vurnik was awarded Prešeren Award in Ljubljana
In media
In 2013, Slovenian
See also
References
- ^ a b The Most Beautiful House in Ljubljana (In Slovene: "Vurnikova hiša na Miklošičevi: najlepša hiša v Ljubljani"), Delo, 8 April 2011
- RTV Slovenia, 8 February 2013
- ISSN 1408-6611.
- ^ a b Vurnik Ivan in "Who's who in Upper Carniola" (In Slovene: "Gorenjci" - biografski leksikon znanih Gorenjcev in Gorenjk)
Further reading
- Miran Kambič, Arhitektura Ivana Vurnika (Ljubljana: Arché, 1994)
- Janez Koželj (ed.), Ivan Vurnik: 1884-1971. Slovenski arhitekt = A Slovenian architect, bilingual Slovenian-English special edition of the Architect's Bulletin of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, 1995).
- Breda Mihelič, Art nouveau Ljubljana (Ljubljana: Zavod za turizem, 2005).