Boris Kobe

Boris Kobe
Kobe in 1961
Born(1905-10-09)9 October 1905
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Died3 May 1981(1981-05-03) (aged 75)
NationalitySlovenian
EducationUniversity of Ljubljana Technical Faculty, Department of Architecture
Known forarchitecture, painting and illustrating
Notable workArchitecture, painting and illustration
SpouseValentina Kobe
AwardsLevstik Award
1952 for Visoška kronika
Prešeren Award
1977 for his architecture, paintings and designs

Boris Kobe (9 October 1905 – 3 May 1981) was a Slovene architect, painter, and designer.

Kobe was born in Ljubljana in 1905. He studied art at the Department of Architecture at what was then the University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty under Jože Plečnik and graduated in 1929.[1] He married the anatomist Valentina Grošlj with whom he would have five children.[2] During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Allach concentration camp.[3] After the war he worked as an architect, painter, and designer in Ljubljana. He died in 1981. In the early 1940s, he arranged the area around Tivoli Pond and the children's playground next to it.

Awards

He received the Prešeren Award for his architecture, paintings, and designs in 1977.[4] He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Ivan Tavčar's Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicles) in 1952.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Burger, Oswald (2001). "Das Lager-Tarockspiel von Boris Kobe [The Camp Tarot Game by Boris Kobe]" (PDF). Der Stollen [The Tunnel] (in German) (4th ed.). Überlingen, Germany: Verein Dokumentationsstätte Goldbaher Stollen und KZ Aufkirch. pp. 3–7. ISBN 978-3-86142-087-3.
  2. ^ Drglin, Zalka (2007). "Valentina Kobe (1905–1998; Dobje v Poljanski dolini, Ljubljana)". In Šelih, Alenka (ed.). Pozabljena polovica: portreti žensk 19. in 20. stoletja na Slovenskem [The Forgotten Half: Portraits of Women of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Slovenia] (in Slovenian) (1 ed.). Ljubljana, Slovenia: Zalozba Tuma d.o.o. pp. 415–418. ISBN 978-961-6682-01-5.
  3. ^ University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies site
  4. ^ Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ "The Levstik Award at the Mladinska Knjiga press site". Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-04-25.


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