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Anton Ažbe

1862 - 1905

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Anton Ažbe (30 May 1862 – 5 or 6 August 1905) was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists (Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters (Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, to name a few), Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović or a Czech painter Ludvik Kuba. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Ažbe is the 558th most popular painter (up from 651st in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Slovenia and the most popular Slovene Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Ažbe ranks 558 out of 2,023. Before him are Sebastiano Ricci, Martiros Saryan, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Anton von Werner, Willem Kalf, and Pierre Puget. After him are Peter von Cornelius, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Francesco Filippini, Bernardo Strozzi, Wenceslaus Hollar, and Jules Dupré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Anton Ažbe ranks 40. Before him are Maurice Barrès, Georges Feydeau, Henry McMahon, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Mary Kingsley, and Cosmo Duff-Gordon. After him are Vito Cascio Ferro, Silvio Gesell, Théo van Rysselberghe, Mary Anderson, René Viviani, and Leonid Pasternak. Among people deceased in 1905, Anton Ažbe ranks 20. Before him are Élisée Reclus, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Walther Flemming, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Per Teodor Cleve, and Constantin Meunier. After him are Alphonse Allais, Adolf Bastian, Albert von Kölliker, Oswald Achenbach, Alois Riegl, and Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Anton Ažbe ranks 31 out of 340. Before him are Franc Rode (1934), Antonio Abetti (1846), Nino Benvenuti (1938), Jacobus Gallus (1550), Branko Oblak (1947), and Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361). After him are Thomas Luckmann (1927), Anton Janša (1734), Jurij Vega (1754), Ulrich II, Count of Celje (1406), Anton Korošec (1872), and Anna of Cilli (1380).

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Among PAINTERS In Slovenia

Among painters born in Slovenia, Anton Ažbe ranks 1. After him are Anton Janša (1734), Ivana Kobilca (1861), Rihard Jakopič (1869), Zoran Mušič (1909), and Ivan Grohar (1867).

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