Fran Klemenčič

(Ljubljana, 1880 - Ljubljana, 1961)

The painter Fran Klemenčič studied at the Vienna Academy (from 1903 to 1905) and then continued his studies at the Academy in Munich. He was also a member of the Vesna Art Society. Klemenčič was a famous Ljubljana landscape painter. In his early years he painted realistic portraits and peasant landscapes, after 1910 he developed landscape painting in the technique of a wide brush, and between the two wars he painted with a spatula in Impressionist mode, and even later he painted flowers in particular. He painted with oil paints, pastels and watercolors. He painted many landscapes, watercolors of national costumes, peasant interiors, etc. (summarized from Wikipedia).