The sculptor Janez Pirnat was born in Ljubljana in Slovenia on 25 September 1932. His father, the late Nikolaj Pirnat, was a renowned Slovene author, illustrator, graphic artist, painter, sculptor, and professor at the Ljubljana Academy of Arts.
His mother, Nada Kraigher. is a writer. He attended his first lessons in drawing and modelling with his father, and after his death in the workshop of sculptor Jakob Savingek. After finishing grammar school he started to study architecture, and afterwards sculpture at the Ljubljana Academy of Arts. He took his degree in 1957. He resumed postgraduate studies at the special school for sculpture with professor Karel Putrih and later at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana with professors Boris Ziherl and Stane Mikui, and completed his study with the thesis ‘Slovene Form of Impressionism in the Work of Ivan Grohar’ (1964). He was among the initiators of the magazine for social and cultural issues Problemi (1962) and worked as one of its editors for two years. He travelled widely to complete his education: to Italy, France. Germany. Belgium. the Netherlands and the Soviet Union. In 1967 he was granted the Ford scholarship and worked for a year in the United States of America.
In 1959 he started to create his outdoor studio in Sipar. Istria (in Croatia). Since then he has been a regular visitor of Istrian quarries and has worked predominantly there. Between the autumn of 1963 and spring of 1964 he took part in the establishment and organization of the town of the arts in mediaeval Groinjan; in 1964 he sculpted his ‘Garbs’ there.
His first public exhibition was in Idrija in 1951. His subsequent independent exhibitions in Slovenia were held: in Ljubljana
(1959, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1992), Mkofja Loka (1969), Idrija (1969), Celje (1965, 1971), Portoro’i (1972), Slovenj Gradec (1974), Maribor (1976), at Zemono near Vipava (1978), in Kostanjevica na Krki (1978),
Novo Mesto (1982), Koper (1984) and in Groinjan (1985-1995). Independent exhibitions abroad: in Paris (1970), Belgrade (1970), Udine (1972), Brussels (1970, 1973, 1977, 1989), Bayreuth (1980), Zagreb (1980), Zurich (1982), Gorizia (1983), Sarajevo (1984), Trieste (1984, 1994) and in Vienna (1995).
He took part in numerous collective exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad, among them in Ljubljana, Murska Sobota, Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje, Titograd (present Podgorica), Sarajevo, Subotica, Split, Verona, Vicenza, Paris (the biennial ‘Formes Humaines’ in 1970, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982), Vienna (1977) and Zurich (1983).
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He attended several international symposia: in Portoroi (1965) and Lipica (1980) in Slovenia, Vasvieres in France (1983) and in Medulin in Croatia (1995).
His major sculptures and monuments were erected in Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kanal ob SoCi, Nova Gorica, Idrija, Prevoje near Domiale, Sdana and Lipica in Slovenia and in Umag in Croatia. His works of art are in various public and private collections in Slovenia and abroad.
In 1966 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Belgrade Book Fair for his illustration of the poetry of Li Tai Po, in 1979 the Insurrection of the Slovene Nation Award for sculpture, and in 1984 the ‘Zupanefe Award of the City of Ljubljana for sculpture.
An extensive monograph about the author was published in 1987 in Slovene, English, Croatian, Italian, French and German editions.
Janez Pirnat resides and works in Ljubljana and Sipar in Istria.
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