Marij Pregelj (8 August 1913 – 18 March 1967) was a Slovene painter, considered one of the key figures in Slovene painting in the second half of the 20th century. Pregelj was born in

Kranj Kranj (, german: Krainburg) is the third-largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 37,941 (2020). It is located approximately northwest of Ljubljana. The centre of the City Municipality of Kranj and of the traditional region of Upper Carniol ...

in 1913 and was the son of the Slovene writer and playwright

Ivan Pregelj Ivan Pregelj (27 October 1883 – 30 January 1960) was a Slovene writer, playwright, poet, and critic. Life Pregelj was born to a tailor's family in Most na Soči (at that time called Sveta Lucija). His father died while Pregelj was still a chi ...

. He studied art at the

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from 1932 to 1936. He was known for his oil paintings, mostly landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, and also for his illustrations, most notably those for the 1950 and 1951 editions of

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's translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He won the

Levstik Award The Levstik Award ( sl, Levstikova nagrada) is a literary award in Slovenia awarded for achievements in children's literature. It has been bestowed since 1949 by the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, making it the first literary award established ...

for his illustrations three times: in 1949 for his illustrations for France Bevk's collection of stories ''Otroška leta'' (My Childhood Years), in 1957 for Jack London's '' White Fang'' (Slovene title: ''Beli očnjak''), and in 1959 for Hemingway's '' The Old Man and the Sea'' (Slovene title: ''Starec in morje''). He won the Prešeren Award twice, in 1958 for his mosaic at the Worker's Union building in Trbovlje and in 1964 for an exhibition of his paintings in the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana the previous year.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
In 1969 he was also the first recipient of the Jakopič Award for painting. From December 2017 to May 2018, a retrospective exhibition of Pregelj's oeuvre was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

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