Boris Kobe Explained

Boris Kobe
Birth Date:9 October 1905
Birth Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nationality:Slovenian
Field:architecture, painting and illustrating
Training:University of Ljubljana Technical Faculty, Department of Architecture
Works:Architecture, painting and illustration
Spouse:Valentina Kobe

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Burger . Oswald . Der Stollen . 2001 . 4th . Verein Dokumentationsstätte Goldbaher Stollen und KZ Aufkirch . Überlingen, Germany . Das Lager-Tarockspiel von Boris Kobe [The Camp Tarot Game by Boris Kobe] . 3–7 . https://www.gedenkstaettenforum.de/uploads/media/GedRund105_3-7.pdf . German . The Tunnel . 978-3-86142-087-3.
  2. Book: Drglin, Zalka . Šelih . Alenka . Pozabljena polovica: portreti žensk 19. in 20. stoletja na Slovenskem . https://books.google.com/books?id=oFYdZ8JA5z4C&pg=PA418 . 2007 . 1 . Zalozba Tuma d.o.o . Ljubljana, Slovenia . Slovenian . The Forgotten Half: Portraits of Women of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Slovenia . Valentina Kobe (1905–1998; Dobje v Poljanski dolini, Ljubljana) . 415–418. 978-961-6682-01-5.
  3. http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/kobe/ University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies site
  4. http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/2_Presernove_nagrade1947-2012.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
  5. Web site: The Levstik Award at the Mladinska Knjiga press site . 2012-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317130359/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 2012-03-17 . dead .