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Avgust Cernigoj

Avgust Cernigoj (1898 - 1985) was active/lived in Italy, Slovenia, Austria.  Avgust Cernigoj is known for Constructivism, architectural design.

Avgust Cernigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi (August 24, 1898, - November 17, 1985) was a Slovene painter, known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism.

He was born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.  He finished Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Trieste, continuing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.  Later on, he attended the Bauhaus school of crafts and fine arts in Weimar, which had a profound impact on his development as an artist, having come into contact with Abstraction, the Russian avant-garde and particularly Constructivism through the works and teachings of Wassily Kandinsky, who brought it from Russia.

He returned to Slovenia, where he became friends with the avant-garde poet Srecko Kosovel.  In 1924, he prepared the first Constructivist exhibition in Slovenia, held in the premises of the Secondary Technical School in Ljubljana.  The exhibits included architectural models, re   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1679 characters.]  Artist bio

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