(Gorica, Italy, 21.7.1876 - Ljubljana, 2.12.1968)
Avgusta Šantel was a Slovenian painter and graphic artist who came from a famous family of artists. Her mother was Avgusta Šantel the Elder. She recognized her daughter's talent at a young age and encouraged her to develop her skills. At the turn of the century, Avgusta went to Vienna.
There, she briefly attended lectures at the academy, and then returned to her homeland. In 1907, she traveled to Munich, as she wanted to attend the evening school of nude painting with Prof. Debschitz. She also attended the private painting school Margareta Stall, where she specialized in floral still lifes. Throughout her further artistic journey, she also attended several short vacation courses in Tyrol and Bavaria, in order to master her painting skills as well as possible. The courses tested various drawing techniques. She painted most often with oils and watercolors, but she also used colored pencils and pastels. Her oeuvre also includes some prints, mainly woodcuts and linocuts. Her oeuvre is dominated by landscapes and floral still lifes. Some works also depict the human figure, but she preferred to focus on the world around her.
Avgusta Šantel's artistic expression strongly adheres to realism. Her colors are pure and shiny, and all details are precisely drawn. When she painted landscapes, she blurred the clean and precise strokes somewhat. In these, she managed to capture the atmosphere, which she lifted like a mist over the city. For most of her life, the talented artist was engaged in teaching the violin. She was a brilliant teacher and passed on her knowledge to numerous schools across Slovenia. In addition to painting, she was also engaged in creative writing. She published a cycle of childhood memories, which she equipped with her own drawings and sketches from her teenage years. She wrote in the publication that painting had always brought her joy. She observed every detail of the artworks with interest and tried to imprint them in her memory.
Avgusta Šantel Jr. left behind an extensive oeuvre of just over 700 works of art. Most of them can be found in private collectors, but some are also kept by major art institutions in our country. During her career, she was actively involved in various art societies. She was a member of the Vesna Club and the Grohar Art Club. She first presented her artworks in 1904, and since then she has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and in cities throughout the former Yugoslavia.
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Avgusta Šantel je bila slovenska slikarka in grafičarka, ki je izvirala iz znamenite družine umetnic. Njena mati je bila Avgusta Šantel starejša. V hčeri je že v mladosti prepoznala talent in jo je spodbudila k razvoju spretnosti. Na prelomu stoletja se je Avgusta odpravila na Dunaj.
Tam je kratek čas obiskovala predavanja na akademiji, nato pa se je vrnila nazaj v domovino. Leta 1907 je odpotovala še v München, saj je želela prisostvovati v večerni šoli akta pri prof. Debschitzu. Obiskovala je tudi zasebno slikarsko šolo Margareta Stall, kjer se je specializirala za cvetlična tihožitja. Skozi nadaljnjo umetniško pot je prisostvovala tudi nekaj krajšim počitniškim tečajem na Tirolske in Bavarskem, da je kar se da dobro osvojila slikarske veščine. Na tečajih so preizkušali različne tehnike risanja. Največkrat je slikala z olji, in akvareli, posegla pa je tudi po barvnih svinčnikih in pastelu. V njenem opusu najdemo tudi nekaj grafik, predvsem lesoreze in linoreze. V njenem opusu dominirajo predvsem pokrajine in cvetlična tihožitja. Nekaj del prikazuje tudi človeško figuro, pa vendar se je raje osredotočila na svet okoli sebe.
Likovni izraz Avguste Šantel se močno oklepa realizma. Njene barve so čiste in sijoče, vsi detajli pa natančno izrisani. Kadar je slikala krajino, je čiste in natančne poteze nekoliko zabrisala. V te je namreč uspela ujeti atmosfero, ki jo je kot meglico dvignila nad mesto. Večji del svojega življena se je nadarjena umetnica ukvarjala s poučevanjem violine. Bila je sijajna pedagoginja in je svoje znanje predajala naprej na številnih šolah po Sloveniji. Poleg slikanja se je ukvarjala tudi s kreativnim pisanjem. Izdala je cikel spominov iz otroštva, ki jih je opremila z lastnimi risbami in skicami iz mladostniških let. V publikacijo je zapisala, da jo je slikarstvo že od nekdaj veselilo. Z zanimanjem je opazovala vsak detajl na likovnih delih in si ga je skušala vtisniti v spomin.
Za seboj je Avgusta Šantel ml. pustila obsežen opus z nekaj več kot 700 umetninami. Večinoma jih najdemo pri zasebnih zbirateljih, nekaj pa jih hranijo tudi poglavitne umetnostne institucije pri nas. Tekom svoje kariere se je aktivno udejstvovala v različnih umetnostnih društvih. Včlanjena je bila v klub Vesna, umetnostni klub Grohar. S svojimi umetninami se je prvič predstavila leta 1904, vse od tedaj pa se je udeležila številnih razstav doma in po mestih nekdanje Jugoslavije.
Besedilo je za galerijo Porta Alpina pripravila Pia Župevec, dipl. um. zgod.
The text was prepared for the Porta Alpina gallery by Pia Župevec, B.Sc. art history
SOURCES/VIRI:
- Luc MENAŠE, s. v. Šantel, Avgusta, ml., Evropski umetnostno zgodovinski leksikon, Ljubljana 1971, col. 2092.
- Breda KOLAR-SLUGA, Umetniška družina Šantel: Tri slikarke v Mariboru, 19.4.2025, https://www.ugm.si/razstave/umetniska-druzina-santel-tri-slikarke-v-mariboru-5565/ (7.6.2025).
- Verena KORŠIČ, s. v. Šantel, Avgusta ml. (1876-1968), Slovenska biografija, 2013, https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi638575/ (11.6.2025).
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