Gojmir Anton Kos
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Gojmir Anton Kos
| image = Gojmir Anton Kos.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|01|24}}
| birth_place = Gorizia, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|05|22|1896|01|24}}
| death_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
| nationality = Slovenian
| field = Painting, photography
| training = Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb
| movement = Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Color realism, Poetic realism
| works = Girl with an Accordion,
Self-Portrait,
monumental compositions from Slovene history:
The Enthronement in the Zollfeld,
The Defeat of Rebellious Peasants near Krško
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| awards = {{awd|Prešeren Award|1947|Girl with an Accordion}}{{awd|Prešeren Award|1950|Self-Portrat}}
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Gojmir Anton Kos (January 24, 1896 – May 22, 1970) was a Slovene academy-trained painter, photographer, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
Gojmir was born in the town of Gorizia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Italy), where his father, the renowned historian Franc Kos from the vicinity of Škofja Loka in Carniola, taught at the State Gymnasium. His mother was a Friulian from the Austrian Littoral. Gojmir's older brother Milko later also became a prominent historian and chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.
Gojmir studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Rudolf Bacher and Julius Schmidt. Due to the collapse of Austria-Hungary, he finished his last semester at the College of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, where he graduated in 1919. At that time he also passed an examination qualifying him as a professor of drawing. In 1924 he moved to Ljubljana, where he initially taught at secondary schools. After World War II he was appointed a full professor of drawing at the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he remained until his retirement in 1962. From 1948 to the spring of 1949 he also directed the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.
Work
Kos' paintings were mainly landscapes, portraits, monumental scenes from Slovene history (exhibited in the Slovenian Presidential Palace),{{cite web|url=http://www.up-rs.si/up-rs/uprs-eng.nsf/dokumentiweb/predsedniska-palaca?OpenDocument|title=Presidential Palace |work=President of the Republic of Slovenia |accessdate=2008-04-07}} figurative compositions, and still lifes, at which he especially excelled. His favorite medium was oil on canvas, although in his early years he also created some book illustrations, posters, and furniture. In his works he emphasized light contrasts and color over the reality of images.
Kos was also an avid photographer and the organiser of the first photography exhibition in Ljubljana.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/razstave/gojmir-anton-kos-slikar-za-fotografskim-aparatom/240863 |title=Gojmir Anton Kos, slikar za fotografskim aparatom |language=Slovenian |trans-title=Gojmir Anton Kos, a Painter behind a Camera |date=5 October 2010 |publisher=MMC RTV Slovenija}}
Kos won numerous prizes for his work, including the Prešeren Award for his oil painting Dekle s harmoniko (Girl with an Accordion) in 1947 and again for his oil painting Avtoportret (Self-Portrait) in 1950. In that year he also exhibited at the Venice Biennale. On December 6, 1949 he became a member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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- {{Cite web |url=http://www2.arnes.si/finearts/gakos/gakos.html |title=Gojmir A. Kos, painter |accessdate=2008-04-07 |author=Jure Mikuž |work=Fine Arts and Slovenians |publisher=FineArts Group, Ljubljana }}
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.ach.si/galerija/galerija.swf |title=Gojmir Anton Kos |accessdate=2008-04-07 |work=The Autocommerce Art Collection |publisher=ACH, d.d. |format=SWF |language=Slovenian |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319050932/http://www.ach.si/galerija/galerija.swf |archivedate=2009-03-19 }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Čopič |first=Špelca |year=1970 |title=Gojmir Anton Kos |journal=Sodobnost |pages=963–969 |url=http://www.dlib.si/v2/StreamFile.aspx?URN=URN:NBN:SI:doc-9HHGSDIT&id=30b42b99-e4d2-49f2-8bb4-efcff5d7ae08&type=PDF |accessdate=9 November 2010 |language=Slovenian}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Cevc |first=Emilijan |authorlink=Emilijan Cevc |year=1971 |title=Gojmir Anton Kos |journal=Loški razgledi |pages=95–100 |url=http://www.dlib.si/v2/StreamFile.aspx?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-QYUV8OV9&id=de9e7e5b-e0af-4ca3-ab62-1df03bef0df4&type=PDF |accessdate=9 November 2010 |language=Slovenian, German}}
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Category:Slovenian realist painters
Category:Slovenian photographers
Category:Expressionist painters
Category:Prešeren Award laureates
Category:Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
Category:Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Category:Slovenian people of Friulian descent
Category:Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni