Jakob Savinšek
Jakob Savinšek (4 February 1922 – 17 August 1961) was a
Life
Savinšek was born in the
Between 1945 and 1949, he studied sculpture at the
In the late 1950s, he entered in conflict with the foremost Slovenian sculptor of the time, Stojan Batič, and founded his own artistic circle, composed not only of young and talented visual artist, but of literates and theatre people such as Dino Radojević, Herbert Grün, Saša Vuga, Dušan Pirjevec and Andrej Hieng.[1][2]
He died in Kirchheim, Germany, while attending a sculptors' workshop. He is buried in Žale Cemetery in Ljubljana.
Work
Savinšek dedicated himself mostly to figural art, with a preference in psychologically analytic portraits and female nudes.[3] At the beginning of his career, he was influenced by the tradition of Slovene expressionism (especially the works of France Kralj), but he gradually turned to his own modernist style, in which he experimented with the volume of sculpture.[1] He also produced some graphics and illustrations.
His best-known works are the monuments to
Savinšek also wrote poetry throughout most of his adult life, but he never published it. His manuscripts are kept in the National and University Library of Slovenia. The first collections of his poems was published in 2003 by the literary magazine KUD Logos, edited by the philosopher Gorazd Kocijančič.
See also
- List of Slovenian language poets
- List of Slovenian artists
References
- ^ a b c Taras Kermauner, Skupinski portret z Dušanom Pirjevcem (Ljubljana: ZPS, 2002), 159-160
- ^ Dušan Pirjevec: slovenska kultura in literarna veda (Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta), 310-11
- ^ "Savinšek Jakob". sloart.si.
Sources
- Andrej Smrekar, "Jakob Savinšek: ob dvajsetletnici smrti" in NR Po Svetu (August 28, 1981).
- Recension of Savinšek's poetry in KUD Logos magazine
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