Jože Plečnik : umetnost v novih razmerah

slovenian

2017

volume 17, issue 1

Zgodovinsko društvo dr. Franca Kovačiča v Mariboru
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The author presents the artistic path of architect Jože Plečnik following the end of the Second World War until his death in 1957. They dared not sack him from the Academy of Sciences and Arts, which had happened to many other Slovenian intellectuals, but there was simply no future for Plečnik in Ljubljana. Some of Plečnik's sacral works were no better off, as they had been destroyed in the war or shortly after. In any case, these were not the circumstances he was hoping for during the stormy times of the Second World War, when he was contemplating great ideas for post-war Ljubljana. Although in his school Plečnik continued to work on the filling of some of the city's gaps, which undoubtedly included his project for the Glasbena Matica music society building from the end of the forties, one of the last of his accomplished works for Ljubljana between 1950 and 1956 was the renovation of the former Monastery of the Teutonic Order. After his death on 7 January 1957 and the procession at the Žale Cemetery in Ljubljana that followed, Plečnik was forgotten for almost twenty years.

15.10.2021