Boris Kobe

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

Boris Kobe
Kobe in 1961
Born(1905-10-09)October 9, 1905
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Died(1981-05-03)May 3, 1981
NationalitySlovenian
EducationUniversity of Ljubljana Technical Faculty, Department of Architecture
Known forarchitecture, painting and illustrating
Notable work
Architecture, painting and illustration
Spouse(s)Valentina Kobe
AwardsLevstik Award
1952 for Visoška kronika
Prešeren Award
1977 for his architecture, paintings and designs

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. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Allach concentration camp.[1] 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.[2] He won the Levstik Award for his illustrations of Ivan Tavčar's Visoška kronika (The Visoko Chronicles) in 1952.[3]

References
  1. University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies site
  2. Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
  3. "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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