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Ivana Kobilca and Her Painting for the Ljubljana Town Hall, Slovenia Bows to Ljubljana, in the Context of Women’s Painting in the Late Nineteenth Century
Beti Žerovc
; Oddelek za umetnostno zgodovino, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
Sažetak
This article on the artist Ivana Kobilca (b. Ljubljana, 1861; d. Ljubljana, 1926) developed from thinking about her painting Slovenija se klanja Ljubljani (Slovenia Bows to Ljubljana), which has hung in the main chamber of Ljubljana’s Town Hall for over a hundred years. The first negotiations about the painting took place in 1898, after Kobilca completed a portrait of the Croatian bishop, arts patron, and famous Slavophile, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, for the city of Ljubljana, which then decided to finance as well a large allegorical painting for the Town Hall assembly room. The work is of exceptional interest as it provides a basis for actively confronting some of the key questions related to women’s emancipation and their professionalization in the art field in that period. As a large and important public commission it tells us of women’s serious entry into the painting profession and of the province of Carniola’s willingness to accept Kobilca. In the article, however, we mainly address certain less favourable aspects connected with the painting. Indeed, on the whole it was not a successful work, a fact we take as a starting point for thinking about where women’s artistic careers ran into obstacles and how they were unable to receive the proper training for painting this sort of monumental multifigural composition.
Ključne riječi
Ivana Kobilca; women’s painting in the late 19th century; reception and historicization of Ivana Kobilca; limited educational opportunities for women painters; professional organizing of women artists
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138252
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Datum izdavanja:
10.12.2013.
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