Slavko Pengov (24 June 1908 – 6 January 1966) was a Slovene

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best known for his monumental opus of murals such as those in the National Assembly Building in Ljubljana and the Parish Church of Saint Martin in Bled. Pengov was born in Ljubljana in 1908. He studied art at the

Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts The Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb ( hr, Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu or ALU) is a Croatian art school based in Zagreb. It is one of the three art academies affiliated with the University of Zagreb, along with the Academy of Dramatic Art ...

and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1945 he taught at the

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in Ljubljana. He also illustrated a number of books and won the Levstik Award in 1951 for his illustrations of Fran Saleški Finžgar's book ''Pod svobodnim soncem'' (Under A Free Sun). In 1959 he received the Prešeren Award for his murals on the history of Slovenes in the National Assembly Building in Ljubljana.Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients
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Slovenian male painters Slovenian illustrators 1908 births 1966 deaths Artists from Ljubljana Levstik Award laureates Prešeren Award laureates Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb alumni University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana 20th-century Slovenian painters 20th-century Slovenian male artists {{slovenia-artist-stub