18. 6. 2022 Anton Nowak / guided tour

Anton Nowak / guided tour
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva 6
Saturday, 18 June 2022, 20:30

led by: Andreja Borin, curator UGM

You are invited to a free guided tour of the exhibition of painter and graphic artist Anton Nowak in the UGM Kabinet, which will take place on the 20th Summer Museum Night.

The painter and printmaker Anton Nowak was born in 1865 into a German-oriented family in Maribor. Around 70 of Nowak's paintings were gradually relocated to the Maribor Art Gallery's  collection, while a handful remained in the Maribor Regional Museum's collection. The paintings in Maribor Art Gallery reveal him as a realist who incorporated elements of plein-air painting on occasion and brightened his palette with pink, purple, and grey tones as a result of a new perception of light. Within his landscape repertoire, he occasionally adopted motifs and inspirations from his contemporaries, while remaining a moderate traditionalist in his painting style. Since his time at the Academy, he loosened and prolonged his stroke, but he never truly let go into the unknown, instead continuing to employ a stroke with accuracy and consistency to create a compact and somewhat closed visual surface.