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Oliver Pilić, Pearl Earring, hand-printed woodcut, 2017

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
The graphic work Pearl Earring, in the woodcut technique and printed by hand, is the work of a younger generation Kamnik artist, Oliver Pilić. The latter significantly enters the context of contemporary fine art in the context of both the local and Slovenian art scene and technically intervenes ...

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Lojze Perko, Factory Utok, 1954, o.pl.

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
In the 1950s, more precisely in 1954, the work of the academic painter Lojze Perko (1909-1980) was created, which depicts the Utok factory in Kamnik, when it was nationalized and expanded tremendously from the once small private leather factory of Tone Knaflič. Perko designed the picture from the ...

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Plate, stoneware, Wedgwood, 19th century

Objavljeno: 11.02.2022
Plate, edible, shallow, from food service, stoneware dishes. At the bottom of the Wedgwood brand. The motif of a cargo ship with sails in front of the port is recognizable, with floral ornaments in blue on the edge of the plate. The most important type of ceramics from the end of the 18th ...

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Unknown painter, Birth of Jesus, around 1800

Objavljeno: 17.12.2021
The painting is a popular work from around 1800, but it is not without a sense of lyrical description of the night atmosphere. On our left we have the scene of the birth of Jesus, we see a wooden stable with Jesus, over which Mary bows, and next to her is Joseph standing and praying. In front is a ...

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Model for small bread Saint Nicholas, end of the 19th century 

Objavljeno: 07.12.2021
In the ethnological collection of the Kamnik Museum we keep a model for a small bread with the motif of Saint Nicholas from Kamnik, who came from Sadnikar's collection. As Josip N. Sadnikar wrote, on the day of St. Barbara (December 4) in Kamnik annual seed. There was such a widespread tradition ...

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Reunited after 1853 years. Building inscription from Trojane

Objavljeno: 30.09.2021
September 23, 2021, was a historic day for two halves of what was once the same whole that had been separated for centuries. The lower part of the building inscription made of Pohorje marble (after the publication of Josip Klemenc, Three New Inscriptions from Celje and its surroundings, in the ...

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Anton Koželj, Portrait of a Woman with Children in Slovene National Costume, 1920

Objavljeno: 26.08.2021
The Koželj family is one of the most prominent painting families in Kamnik, which can be traced from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, first with father Matija Koželj, a Nazarene painter, and then with sons Anton and Maks Koželj. Matija and Maks Koželj have already ...

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Jurij Japelj, Blaž Kumerdej, The Bible of the New Testament, II. Part, 1786

Objavljeno: 27.05.2021
Japelj's most important work was a new translation of the Bible into Slovene language. He started in 1783 and invited the teacher Blaž Kumerdej, who was considered the best connoisseur of Slovene language, to participate. They took the oldest Latin translation and the Dalmatian Bible as a basis. ...

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Pocket sundial, Velika planina, cca 1935

Objavljeno: 17.05.2021
A pocket sundial has been preserved in Vlasto Kopač's collection on the great mountain pastoral heritage. It was made by Jurij Humar, the father of Jožefa Humar, who was also a folk artist, but she also made these watches, door handles, etc. For shepherds, time was not so important, but they ...

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Unknown painter, votive painting from Komenda, 1761

Objavljeno: 10.05.2021
The votive image was created at a time when in Komenda the worship of St. Urban already greatly expanded. In 1752, the parish priest of Komenda, deserving cultural worker and educator Peter Pavel Glavar (1721-1784) acquired in Rome the relics of St. Urban martyrs who are still under the main altar ...

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