Gojmir Anton Kos
Painting, Visual Artist
1896 – 1970
Who was Gojmir Anton Kos?
Gojmir Anton Kos was a Slovene academy-trained painter, photographer, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
Gojmir was born in the town of Gorizia, where his father, the renowned historian Franc Kos from the vicinity of Škofja Loka in Carniola, taught at the prestigious State Gymnasium. His mother was a Friulian from the Austrian Littoral. Gojmir's older brother Milko later also became a prominent historian and chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.
Gojmir studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Rudolf Bacher and Julius Schmidt. Due to the collapse of Austria-Hungary, he finished his last semester at the College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, where he graduated in 1919. At that time he also passed an examination qualifying him as a professor of drawing. In 1924 he moved to Ljubljana, where he initially taught at secondary schools. After World War II he was appointed a full professor of drawing at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he remained until his retirement in 1962. From 1948 to the spring of 1949 he also directed the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.
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- Born
- Jan 24, 1896
Gorizia - Nationality
- Slovenia
- Lived in
- Gorizia
- Died
- May 22, 1970
Ljubljana
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on July 23, 2013
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