Ante Trstenjak from the Maribor Art Gallery collection
Ante Trstenjak from the Maribor Art Gallery collection
Lojze Bratuž Cultural Centre, Gorica
3.–17 October 2023
opening: Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 18:00
curator: Andreja Borin
The artistic path of the painter Ante Trstenjak (1894–1970) began in tune with the modest conditions in his home village in Prlekija, continued in the cosmopolitan European centres of the time (Graz, Zagreb, Vienna, Paris) and ended in Maribor. He studied painting in Vienna, Zagreb and then in Prague, where he graduated and lived for two decades. At the end of the 1920s, he - similar to the Czech painter Ludvík Kuba - found inspiration in the rich culture of the Sorbs and the motif of Sorb women, which he continued to paint over the next thirty years. He focused mainly on vedute, landscapes and portraits and never truly resorted to modernism. In the 1920s and 30s, he occasionally came close to one contemporary art movement or another, but in the end, he always returned to his own style of painting. The exhibition is set up as an overview of the artist's creative work, the most memorable stages in his opus and a selection of his most characteristic works. All the exhibited artworks belong to the Maribor Art Gallery collection, which keeps 270 works by Trstenjak: paintings, watercolours, graphic prints, drawings, sketches and illustrations.
The Maribor Art Gallery holds around 270 of Trstenjak's works - paintings, prints, drawings, sketches and watercolours. The current exhibition showcases around fifty of the best works.
More about exhibition here.
