My hero is Ivan Grohar. He was Slovenian famous painter. He was born in the Upper Carniolan village of Spodnja Sorica. In early age, he showed an interest in art but he couldn't develop his talent because he was an orphan and lived in poverty. In 1888, the vicar Anton Jamnik sent him to an exhibition in the town near Skofja Loka.
In 1892, he applied to the Carniolan Provincial Diet for financial assistance to study at the Graz school of painting, which he received. Two years later, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In August 1896, he opened his own atelier in Skofja Loka.
He also worked in Munich, where he attended Anton Ažbe's school of art. In autumn of 1900, he took part in the first Slovene Artists' Exhibition, organised by the Slovene Artistic Association.
In 1911, after interventions of the politician Janez Evangelist Krek and the painter Rihard Jakopic, the Sorica municipal council granted him 2000 crowns for a study trip to Italy. He then went to Ljubljana in order to buy everything that he would need for the trip, in state hospital in Ljubljana, he died of tuberculosis.
The Sower has become one of the most established and characteristic Slovene images, a symbol of the cultural transition of the Slovenes from a rural to an urban culture. His most important works were: - Brna (1899) - Srce Jezusovo (1900) - Pod Koprivnikom (1902) - Rafolško polje (1903) - Pomlad (1903) - Macesen (1904) - Skofja Loka v snegu (1905) - Sejalec (1907) - Krompir (1909/1910) - Moz z vozom (1910) - Crednik (1910)
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