Slavko Pengov

(Ljubljana, 1908 - Ljubljana, 1966)

Slavko Pengov, a Slovenian painter, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, then studied at the Academy in Vienna. From 1945 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Pengov is created in a variety of techniques. Throughout, he remained faithful to realism, considered compositions and plastic modeling of objects and figures. His early works were mostly portraits and still lifes in the oil on canvas technique. He was also involved in illustration. Pengov is best known as a painter with the most extensive opus of monumental wall painting of the 20th century in Slovenia. He also painted churches and profane buildings in the technique of fresco, mosaic and sgraffito (summarized from Wikipedia).