Franc Suher (October 4, 1861 – February 11, 1944), also known as Franz Suher, was a Slovene schoolmaster and drawing methodologist.''Slovenska biografija'': Franc Suher.
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Life and education

Suher was born in Huda Jama, the son of the mining supervisor Jožef Suher and his wife Gertraud née Roboz. After graduating from the Maribor normal school in 1880, he taught in

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. He later studied in Graz, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, and Jena before returning to Slovenia, where he taught drawing in Ljubljana until his retirement in 1925.Tavčar, Lidija. 2009. ''Homo spectator''. Ljubljana: Pedagoški inštitut, pp. 43ff. Suher died in Ljubljana on February 11, 1944.

Works

In addition to works on drawing, his publications included works on art and education, school reform, the influence of foreign artistic models. Suher also served as secretary of the Slovene Choral Society in Ptuj for several years.

Selected works

* Sanje (in ''Naše misli'', 1878) * Risanje in njega razmerje do moderne pedagogike (in ''Slovan'', 1910) * Osamosvojimo se! (in ''Slovenski narod'' 35, 1920) * Umetnost in vzgoja (in ''Šolski tovariš'', 1920) * Misli o umetniški vzgoji na narodnih šolah (in ''Popotnik'', 1923) * ''Das Zeichnen in der Volksschule Anleitung für die Hand des Lehrers'' (Leipzig, 1917) ''Laibacher Zeitung'' 136(202) (September 4, 1917), p. 1262.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suher, Franc Draughtsmen Slovenian educators 1861 births 1944 deaths Educators from Austria-Hungary