Alenka Gerlovič Explained

Alenka Gerlovič
Birth Date:17 September 1919
Birth Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Death Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nationality:Slovenian
Field:painting
Training:Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts
Works:Painting

Alenka Gerlovič (17 September 1919 – 9 December 2010) was a Slovene painter.[1]

Gerlovič was born in Ljubljana in 1919. She studied art at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. During the Second World War she joined the partisans. She died in Ljubljana in 2010.[2]

She won the Levstik Award in 1968 for her book Likovni pouk otrok (Art Classes for Children).[3]

She won the Prešeren Foundation Award in 1981 for her artistic achievements.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/drugo/umrla-je-akademska-slikarka-alenka-gerlovic/245927 Obituary
  2. [Delo (newspaper)|Delo]
  3. Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 2012-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317130359/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 2012-03-17 . dead .
  4. Web site: Prešeren Fund Awards . Galerija Prešernovih . 20 May 2021.