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Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj and its 20 Years in the City of Prešeren

GALLERY TEMPLE OF LAUREATES

Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj and its 20 Years in the City of Prešeren Barbara Kalan, MA The beginnings of the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj date back to 1995, when Marko Arnež, Head of the Gallery, initiated the organisation of the first exhibition entitled Painters to the City of Prešeren. The purpose of the exhibition was to attract as many renowned Slovenian artists as possible to the capital of Gorenjska. The exhibition and the funds from the sold paintings helped promoting the name of Kranj, the City of Prešeren. Buildings, related to the life and work of France Prešeren, the greatest Slovenian poet, in Kranj were also restored and presented to the public then. This first exhibition was followed by four exhibitions entitled Fine artists to the City of Prešeren, confirming that Kranj wishes to host top Slovenian fine artists. With these exhibitions, Kranj won its recognition as the City of Prešeren, which remains so until this day. In cooperation with the Museum of Gorenjska and some Slovenian museums and galleries, the Municipality of Kranj prepared a large retrospective exhibition of all incumbent Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners of Fine Arts in 2000. Works of more than one hundred exhibitors were presented to the public in the galleries of Kranj. Marko Arnež, holder of this project together with Nace Šumi, PhD, throughout this time, then came up with the idea of systematic building of the collection that consisted of artworks of both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners. By 2002, the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj was hosted in Ravnikar’s Pillared Hall in the Municipality of Kranj building. Later it acquired its new premises in the old Pavšlar house at Glavni trg 18, in the old Cover of the exhibition catalogue entitled Painters to the City of Prešeren. In 1995, the exhibition with this title was organised for the first time.

city centre. The first exhibition in the new premises was dedicated to a Prešeren Fund Award Winner from Kranj, Vinko Tušek, Bachelor of Fine Arts (1936–2011). Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj could not have operated so well without the established cooperation with the Prešeren Fund Board. Already in 2008, all the candidates for the artistic award were presented in the gallery as soon as the nominees for the Prešeren Award and Prešeren Fund Award were announced. For twenty years now, the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj has been promoting the recipients of the highest artistic awards of the Republic of Slovenia awarded by the Prešeren Fund Board. Since 2010, the Gallery has been organising a topical exhibition of both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners on 8 February, which is the Slovenian Cultural Holiday. This way they continue the tradition long cherished by the Museum of Gorenjska and its cultural history curator Beba Jenčič. 73 artistic exhibitions of the Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners have taken place in the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj from 1995 to 2015. A permanent collection of artworks was formed as well. The gallery therefore boasts a rich Lojze Spacal – 100th Birth Anniversary, opening of the exhibition, 1 June 2007

Opening of the exhibition of graphics by Lojze Spacal and Vladimir Makuc in the Ravnikar’s Pillared Hall, in the Municipality of Kranj administrative building, 7 November 2001: Martin Spacal and Vladimir Makuc

On 8 February 2013, Prešeren Theatre Kranj hosted the Muse Gathering at the Parnassus of Kranj for the first time. Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners were addressed by Jože Trontelj PhD, former Chairman of the Prešeren Fund Board.

Eight artists at the opening of the exhibition 8 studios of Prešeren Award Winners on 12 July 2012. From left: Franko Vecchiet, Jože Ciuha, Dušan Tršar, Bogdan Borčić, Dragica Čadež, Franc Novinc, Vladimir Makuc and France Slana

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj Marko Arnež Lev Menaše, PhD, a long-time Artistic Director of the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj, was the first who started handling the permanent collection of Prešeren Award Winners. In the exhibition catalogue published in 2000, he introduced the concept of compiling the permanent collection which would »challenge the professionals« and all future collectors of artworks for the permanent collection. Works of all 83 Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners included in the permanent collection are on view in the three floors of the Pavšlar House. Although in some cases the gallery did not succeed in acquiring the awarded works of art, the criteria and taste of both the technical commission and the Prešeren Fund Board are well reflected in the works presented. Jože Ciuha and Marko Arnež at the opening of the exhibition Ciuha-Šubic-Vidic: Forty Years Later on 4 July 2014

On 8 February 2015, Julijana Bizjak Mlakar, MA, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia visited the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery in the company of Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners 2015.

permanent collection, comprising more than 560 artistic works of 83 Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners, which in terms of volume and quality greatly exceeds local frameworks. A number of art historians and art critics have cooperated with the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj in these twenty years. In addition to Nace Šumi, PhD and Lev Menaše, PhD, there were also Milček Komelj, PhD, Andrej Medved, PhD, Miklavž Komelj, PhD, Andrej Smrekar, PhD, Milena Zlatar, Marko Košan, Robert Inhof, Jure Mikuž, PhD, Breda Ilich Klančnik, Nadja Zgonik, PhD, Goran Milovanovič, Ferdinand Šerbelj, PhD, Nadja Gnamuš, PhD, Andreja Hribernik, Damir Globočnik, PhD, Nives Marvin, Milojka Kline etc. The gallery has also cooperated with numerous Slovenian galleries and museums for many years. These are Museum of Gorenjska, National Museum of Slovenia, National Gallery of Slovenia, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, International Centre of Graphic Arts, National Museum of Contemporary History, Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Carinthia Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec, Art Gallery Maribor, Božidar Jakac Gallery Kostanjevica, Piran Coastal Galleries etc.

Reflecting on the permanent collection of Prešeren Award Winners, Nadja Zgonik, PhD, pointed out that after two decades of collecting one should ask themselves where their efforts had taken them, and how to direct these efforts to achieve systematic collecting and complex compiling of the fine arts collection. To maintain works of art is a complex activity, most of which is not visible to visitors. It involves also systematic museum study and theoretical research of artworks from the collection as well as their premeditated gradual restoration. According to Nadja Zgonik, PhD, to present collections such as the Prešeren Award Winners collection, three principles for successful artistic collection evaluation have to be applied. Firstly, accessibility and spirit, secondly, system and premeditation in collecting, and thirdly, permanence. The two past decades have been marked by such efforts precisely. Exhibition with a representative selection of artworks, exhibition catalogue which will be introduced in autumn, and switch to the era of unlimited access to the presentation of the whole permanent collection on the world wide web will shed some further light to these questions and direct the efforts for future existence of the collection.

Zdenko Kalin: Draft for the Sculpture on the Building of People’s Republic of Slovenia, 1959, plaster, 173 x 52 x 40 cm

Vinko Tušek: Ambience Walk through a Painting, 1985, acrylic on cardboard

The fact that numerous Slovenian museums and galleries together with their curators are willing to cooperate and support us, and so are all the awarded artists, proves us that Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj has been accomplishing its ambitious mission of presenting and collecting artworks of both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners.

Gallery Temple of Laureates: The Museum of Gorenjska – Gallery and the Pillared Hall in the Town Hall

Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts: Selection of Artworks from Art History Collection and the Cabinet of Slovenian Photography Collection – Prešeren House Gallery

Marko Arnež

Damir Globočnik, PhD The Museum of Gorenjska has been cooperating with the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj for a number of years, their missions being intertwined to a certain extent. Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners were presented in the Prešeren House Gallery by Beba Jenčič, a cultural history curator, since 1981. In 2000, the two institutions connected for the first time at the celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of France Prešeren. Cooperating with numerous Slovenian museums and galleries, they prepared a retrospective exhibition of all incumbent fine art award winners at several exhibition venues in Kranj.

Herman Gvardjančič: Landscape, 2004, charcoal on paper, 40 x 50 cm

Drago Tršar: Portrait of Božidar Jakac, terracotta, 45 x 43 x 30 cm

Between 2009 and 2011, the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj operated under the auspices of the Museum of Gorenjska (which was managed by Barbara Ravnik, MA by 2010). Recently, the two institutions have started working more closely again, the credit for which goes to Marjana Žibert, MA, the Director of the Museum. Barbara Kalan, MA, Head of the Specialized Library in the Museum of Gorenjska, however, has been supporting the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery professionally for nearly ten years. The Museum of Gorenjska keeps two exhibition venues, the Town Hall Gallery and the so-called Pillared Hall. Seventeen artists from the permanent collection of the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery are presented here, standing out with their generous donations. Drago Tršar is the most recognisable sculptor in the donated collection. An extensive collection of graphic works was donated by Marjan Pogačnik, Vladimir Makuc and Lojze Spacal. Bogdan Borčić and Andrej Jemec both added their selected graphics. An enviable collection of paint works belongs to Alenka Gerlovič and Valentin Oman. The permanent collection includes also a part of the legacy of Vinko Tušek, illustrations by Zvonko Čoh and Milan Erič as well as works by Dragica Čadež, France Slana, Herman Gvardjančič, Franko Vecchiet, Klavdij Palčič and Bine Rogelj. Nadja Zgonik, PhD, marked this collection as one of the rare (if not the only) systematically designed arts collection of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Museum of Gorenjska houses more than nine hundred works of fine art created by both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners. In the Art History Collection, there is more than six hundred paintings, sculptures, graphics, drawings and artworks in other techniques, while in the Cabinet of Slovenian Photography Collection there are some 250 photos. The collection of artworks by Prešeren Award Winners was initiated soon after the museum was established in Kranj. What influenced the compilation of the collection mainly was a whirl of exhibition activities taking place in the Prešeren House Gallery ever since 1954, and later on also in other gallery venues of the Museum of Gorenjska. The museum acquired works of art by occasional purchases or author donations. Authors, for example, gave the Museum of Gorenjska all photos kept in the Cabinet of Slovenian Photography. With this exhibition, we wanted to underline the most important parts of our collection, and the authors presented with several of their works. In older authors, Lojze Dolinar (1893–1970) and his collection of both statues and graphics, which is exhibited partly in the Town Hall, stands out. In the current exhibition, Dolinar’s plastic art, which was acquired in recent years, is presented. The museum houses artworks of other important representatives of Slovenian 20th Century Fine Art as well. These are Janez Boljka, Bogdan Borčić, Avgust Černigoj, Riko Debenjak, Božidar Jakac, Stane Kregar, Tone Lapajne, Miha Maleš, Adriana Maraž, France Rotar, Maksim Sedej, Drago Tršar etc. We should point out that some artworks had been included in out art history collection even before their authors received the Prešeren Award or the Prešeren Fund Award. This applies to the Gorenjska winners in particular who are here presented here with a number of their works (Herman Gvardjančič, Franc Novinc, Ive Šubic, Vinko Tušek). In the Cabinet of Slovenian Photography Collections, there are artworks of all the awarded photographers. In this exhibition, we present a selection of photos by Stojan Kerbler from his cycle »People of Haloze«.

Ive Šubic: Village in Poljanska Valley, 1958, oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm, inventory no. UZ 530

Lojze Dolinar: Dream, 1956, Brač marble, 37 x 53 x 30 cm, inventory no. UZ 2326

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Zavarovalnica Triglav – Gallery of Zavarovalnica Triglav in Kranj

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Elektro Gorenjska – Elektro Gallery Renata Križnar, MA

Zinka Zavrl Križaj

France Slana: Home, Sweet Home, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm

Zavarovalnica Triglav, or Triglav Insurance Company, Kranj Regional Unit, with its long-established tradition of cultivating and strengthening the trust of clients, has always devoted special attention to culture and arts. We cooperate with various cultural institutions, and support different cultural events. In 1994, art became an even more integral part of our business. In our renovated business premises, we mounted our first exhibition of paintings by renowned academic painters from Gorenjska (Henrik Marchel, Boni Čeh, Zmago Puhar, Vinko Tušek, Klementina Golija and Marko Tušek). In the years that followed, we became an even more active participant of culture and arts events in the city of Kranj. By purchasing works of art, we participated at selling exhibitions Fine Artists to the City of Prešeren and supported a number of biennials in Kranj by purchasing awarded works. Our exhibition area became one of the accompanying exhibition venues. In 1997, we participated in the biennial (the 3rd edition of Kranj Biennial) for the first time by enriching our exhibition area with fine art works of the academic painter Jožef Vrščaj. Klementina Golija, the initiator and organiser of the biennial, is to be thanked that our quarters housed a number of eminent academic painters including Prešeren Fund Award Winners (Klavdij Palčič, Vinko Tušek, France Slana, Zmago Jeraj) in the following years. By purchasing some of these works, we added to our rich arts collection of more than 130 fine arts and sculpture works including 30 works of Prešeren Fund Award Winners – Janez Boljka, Bogdan Borčić, Jože Ciuha, Valentin Oman and Oto Rimele beside the painters mentioned above.

Janez Boljka: Bull, bronze, 17 x 35 x 14 cm

18 years of our gallery work saw a great number of exhibitions. In three of them (France Slana, Lojze Spacal, Zmago Jeraj), we have also cooperated with the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj. By supporting the project, which celebrates twenty years of their enthusiastic and successful work, Zavarovalnica Triglav, Kranj Regional Unit, will continue to build »the bridge of art« between the company, the artists and clients who love to admire the works exhibited. We shall support also other fine art projects and artists who will put their works on view at our exhibition venue.

Elektro Gorenjska is one of the five main electricity distributors in Slovenia, and a reliable provider of electricity and other services for the Gorenjska region. In our company, we are well aware of the importance of cooperation with the local communities in all areas of our operation. As a result, we seek opportunities for our knowledge, financial resources and other resources to contribute to the development of social and economic environment. We seize these opportunities by promoting and developing sports, cultural, educational, humanitarian and environmental projects. The permanent collection of artworks, which was initiated in the late 1970s, has always received valuable support from the company top management, and is undoubtedly an added value to our company. Varied artistic genres and styles of the artworks as well as the wide group of artists reflect the company’s attitude towards both the Slovenian art and the local community. The permanent collection of the company includes also the artworks of the following Prešeren Award Winners: Vladimir Makuc, Franc Novinc, France Slana, Lojze Spacal and Vinko Tušek. During the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj, these artworks will be on exhibition at the Elektro Gallery. Elektro Gallery at Mirko Vadnov Street 3a in Kranj is one of the eight venues exhibiting artworks of both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners during the celebration of the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery Jubilee from June 2015 on. Every work of art presented together with its story engraved in a moment, communicates how big the cosmos is, and how powerful is the light over darkness. Yet, any atmosphere is filled with certain exactness and reliability. These are precisely the values that Elektro Gorenjska has always strived for.

Vladimir Makuc: White Bird, 1968, colour dry point and whetstone on paper, 69 x 49 cm

Franc Novinc: In the Fields, 1986, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 110 cm

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Gorenjska banka

Gallery Temple of Laureates: The Municipality of Kranj Gallery

Bojan Likar

Marko Arnež

In Gorenjska banka, we encourage development, establish mechanisms for broader access to knowledge, support talent, appreciate art, and reward creativity. This is yet another way of strengthening our influence and reputation in the financial market, and shaping the new banking culture actively. For many years now, we have been supporting the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj and its presentation of Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners from the field of fine arts in particular. We are the donor of the main event in the City of Prešeren, the Muse Gathering at the Parnassus of Kranj, on 8 February every year. Since 2010, all winners of the highest culture awards gather in Kranj on this day, with the support of Gorenjska banka among others. Having invited us to celebrate their 20th Anniversary with them, the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj provided us with an excellent opportunity to exhibit the sculpture of the only Prešeren Fine Arts Fund Award Winner from Kranj, academic painter Vinko Tušek, at our premises on Bleiweis Road 1 in Kranj. Vinko Tušek is one of the most renowned painters from Kranj and thus present in fine art collections of other institutions as well. We are presenting his Crazy City, which in many ways reminds us of the crazy times we live in today. Although financial business knows no local boundaries, the sense of belonging and awareness of one’s own origin are priceless for Gorenjska banka. We believe that this cooperation will strengthen the position of both the gallery and Kranj, the city of Prešeren, in the Slovenian cultural field even further.

Vinko Tušek: Crazy City, 2002, mixed technique, 164 x 57 x 51 cm

Among all Slovenian municipalities, the Municipality of Kranj is distinguished for its generous support of culture, and of fine arts in particular. In the old Kranj city centre there are numerous galleries and exhibition venues (Prešeren House Gallery, Town Hall Gallery with the so-called Pillared Hall, Khislstein Castle Attic Gallery, Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj, Kranj House, Mala galerija/Little Gallery, Layer House, Cene Avguštin Gallery, Janez Puhar Gallery, Pungert Café Gallery etc.). For nearly twenty years, the Municipality of Kranj has been housing presentations of Kranj artists as well as artists from all over Slovenia. The beautiful Ravnikar’s Pillared Hall housed the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery for some time until it was moved to the Pavšlar House in the old city centre. Today, mostly distinguished artists from Gorenjska are presented here occasionally. In the first floor, there is the Municipality of Kranj Gallery which hosts the Kranj Artists Society, Janez Puhar Photographic Society Kranj, and exhibitors from twinned cities. From December to January, works of art from the permanent collection of the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery are open to the public here. This time, two Prešeren Fund Award Winners from the permanent collection of the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery are presented in the Municipality of Kranj Gallery, namely Karel Zelenko and Stane Jagodič. They deserve special attention due to their generous donations to the City of Kranj. Karel Zelenko, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Graphic Design, presented the complete works of 115 graphics from 1955 to 2008 to the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery and the City of Kranj. Stane Jagodič, Bachelor of Fine Arts and multimedia artist, presented 44 graphics for the permanent collection of the Prešeren Award Winners Gallery after its exhibition in 2013.

Karel Zelenko: Self-Portrait, 1993, etching, 44,5 x 29 cm Stane Jagodič: Arch of Life, 1978/1981, colour screen printing, 68 x 81 cm

By presenting both artists in the Municipality of Kranj Gallery, we wish to pay our respects and express sincere gratitude for their contribution in the making of »the Slovenian Fine Arts Collection of the 20th and 21st Centuries«. 11

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Aerodrom Ljubljana Art Collection – VIP Lounge Brigita Zorec

Art Collection of Aerodrom Ljubljana, or Ljubljana Airport, brings an important overview and presentation of three art pillars: the Slovenian modern art, the fine artists of the Gorenjska region, where also the airport is situated, and the works of 32 Prešeren Award Winners. Some of these award winners have only been awarded after their works were presented at our premises, not only in the passenger terminal, but also in the management building and other airport buildings. The company managing the Ljubljana Airport acquired most of the Aerodrom Ljubljana Art Collection by mid 1990s. Only a few works of art were purchased later on. The management and external experts of that time (Andrej Jemec, Ivan Sedej PhD, etc.) are to be thanked for the collection being rounded in content, and representative. What was important was their perception that the main airport in the country could also play the role of a small gallery presenting the national art and culture. Being the first contact with our country for the incoming passengers, and the last when they leave, is what makes this mission even more important.

Andrej Jemec: Sign A, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 65 x 75 cm

Drago Tršar: Bull, 1954, bronze, 21 x 31 x 16 cm

Works of art of the Prešeren Award Winners are the most exquisite, rounded and recognisable part of our collection. Hence, it is no coincidence that the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj has recently invited us to join their exhibition. At our recent presentation of Ciril Oblak, the architect who designed the old passenger building at Brnik, also a part of the Aerodrom Ljubljana Art Collection created by the Prešeren Award Winners was open to the public in the Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery. Thus, the collection was presented in a different environment establishing fresh relations and gaining new significance. For us, this exhibition was an ideal opportunity to rethink and redefine the Aerodrom Ljubljana Art Collection. We advanced our cooperation spontaneously by joining the project celebrating the Gallery’s 20th Anniversary entitled the Gallery Temple of Laureates. Here we will present a selection of works which are on view in our VIP lounge.

A list of Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners of Fine Arts presented at Gallery Temple of Laureates: Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj and its 20 Years in the City of Prešeren exhibitions Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj Apollonio, Zvest Batič, Stojan Begić, Mirsad Bernard, Emerik Bernik, Janez Boljka, Janez Borčić, Bogdan Ciuha, Jože Čadež, Dragica Černe, Peter Černigoj, Avgust Čoh, Zvonko Debenjak, Riko Demšar, Anton Didek, Zoran Erič, Milan Gerlovič, Alenka Gnamuš, Gustav Golob, Zdenka Gorenec, Bojan Gvardjančič, Herman Huzjan, Zdenko Jagodič, Stane Jakše, Marko Jarm, Stane Jemec, Andrej Jeraj, Zmago Kalin, Zdenko Kerbler, Stojan Kotnik, Rudolf Kržišnik, Tomaž Kugler, Ema Lakovič, Vladimir Lapajne, Tone Lenassi, Janez Logar, Lojze Makuc, Vladimir Maleš, Miha Maraž, Adriana Marušič, Živko Mihelič, France

Novinc, Franc Oblak, Floris Oman, Valentin Omersa, Nikolaj Palčič, Klavdij Pečar, Borut Peršin, France Pilon, Veno Planinc, Štefan Pogačnik, Marjan Pogačnik, Marko Prančič, Ivo Praprotnik Zupančič, Lilijana Lila Prap Prosenc, Nataša Rijavec, Milan Rimele, Oto Rogelj, Bine Sajovic, Evgen Slak - Đoka, Jože Slana, France Smerdu, Frančišek Sottler, Alenka Spacal, Lojze Stegovec, Tinca Stojko, Tone Stupica, Marija Lucija Šalamun, Andraž Šibila, Janez Šubic, Ive Šušnik, Tugo Šuštaršič, Marko Tihec, Slavko Tisnikar, Jože Tršar, Drago Tršar, Dušan Tušek, Vinko Vecchiet, Franko Vidic, Janez Vodopivec, Lujo Zdravič, Andrej Zelenko, Karel Žnidaršič, Joco

The Museum of Gorenjska – Gallery and the Pillared Hall in the Town Hall Borčić, Bogdan Čadež, Dragica Čoh, Zdenko Erič, Milan Gerlovič, Alenka Gvardjančič, Herman Jemec, Andrej Makuc, Vladimir Oman, Valentin Palčič, Klavdij Pogačnik, Marjan Rogelj, Bine Slana, France Spacal, Lojze Tršar, Drago Tušek, Vinko Vecchiet, Franko

The Museum of Gorenjska – Prešeren House Gallery Apollonio, Zvest Bernik, Janez Boljka, Janez Borčić, Bogdan Ciuha, Jože Černigoj, Avgust Čopič, Ivan Seljak Debenjak, Riko Demšar, Tone Dolinar, Lojze Gvardjančič, Herman Jakac, Božidar Jeraj, Zmago Kerbler, Stojan Kralj, Tone Kregar, Stane Lakovič, Vladimir 13

Lapajne, Tone Maleš, Miha Maraž, Adriana Oman, Valentin Pregelj, Marij Rotar, France Sedej, Maksim Smerdu, Frančišek Tršar, Drago Tušek, Vinko

The Municipality of Kranj Gallery Jagodič, Stane Zelenko, Karel

Elektro Gorenjska – Elektro Gallery Jemec, Andrej Makuc, Vladimir Novinc, Franc Oman, Valentin Slana, France Spacal, Lojze Tušek, Vinko

Zavarovalnica Triglav – Gallery of Zavarovalnica Triglav in Kranj Boljka, Janez Borčić, Bogdan Ciuha, Jože Jeraj, Zmago Oman, Valentin Palčič, Klavdij Prančič, Ivo Rimele, Oto Slana, France Tušek, Vinko

Gorenjska banka – Main branch at the bank headquarters Tušek, Vinko

Aerodrom Ljubljana – VIP Lounge Batič, Stojan Bernik, Janez Borčić, Bogdan Ciuha, Jože Debenjak, Riko

Gallery Temple of Laureates: Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj and its 20 Years in the City of Prešeren 20 June–November 2015 Published by: Institute for Tourism Kranj, www.tourism-kranj.si Represented by: Branko Fartek, Deputy Director Texts: Marko Arnež, Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj Damir Globočnik, PhD and Barbara Kalan, MA, Museum of Gorenjska Renata Križnar, MA, Elektro Gorenjska Bojan Likar, Gorenjska banka Zinka Zavrl Križaj, Zavarovalnica Triglav Brigita Zorec, Aerodrom Ljubljana

Gvardjančič, Herman Jakac, Božidar Jemec, Andrej Kos, Gojmir Anton Krašovec, Metka Kregar, Stane Lapajne, Anton Logar, Lojze Makuc, Vladimir Maraž, Adriana Mihelič, France Mušič, Zoran, Novinc, Franc Oman, Valentin Palčič, Klavdij Pilon, Veno Pregelj, Marij Putrih, Karel Rogelj, Bine Rotar, France Sedej, Maksim Spacal, Lojze Stupica, Gabrijel Stupica, Marija Lucija Stupica, Marlenka Tršar, Drago Tušek, Vinko

Translation: Katarina Ropret Language revision: Marija Šubic Photographs: Photograph Collection of the Museum of Gorenjska, Boštjan Gunčar, Marko Tušek Design: Barbara Bogataj Kokalj Printed by: Tiskarna GTO Košir Print run: 500 copies

Institutions presenting artworks of both Prešeren Award Winners and Prešeren Fund Award Winners from their collections are as follows: 1 Prešeren Award Winners of Fine Arts Gallery Kranj, 20 June–November 2015. Opening times: Tuesday–Friday, 10.00–18.00, Saturdays, 10.00–13.00. Closed on Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Exhibition is free of charge. www.gpn.kranj.si

2 Museum of Gorenjska – Gallery and the Pillared Hall in the Town Hall, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: Tuesday–Sunday, 10.00–18.00, closed on Mondays. Exhibition is free of charge. www.gorenjski-muzej.si

3 Museum of Gorenjska – Prešeren House Gallery, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: Tuesday–Sunday, 10.00–18.00, closed on Mondays. Exhibition is free of charge. www.gorenjski-muzej.si 4 Municipality of Kranj Gallery, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: during office hours of the municipality administration. Exhibition is free of charge. www.kranj.si

5 Gorenjska banka d. d. – The main branch at the bank headquarters, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: Monday–Friday, 8.00–18.00, Saturday, 8.00–12.00. Exhibition is free of charge. www.gbkr.si 6 Zavarovalnica Triglav, d. d. – Gallery of Zavarovalnica Triglav, Kranj, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: Monday–Friday, 7.00–18.00, Saturday, 8.00–12.00. Exhibition is free of charge. www.triglav.si

7 Elektro Gorenjska, d. d. – Elektro Gallery, 20 June–1 September 2015. Opening times: Monday–Friday, 7.00–15.30. Exhibition is free of charge. www.elektro-gorenjska.si

8 Aerodrom Ljubljana Art Collection – VIP Lounge, 20 June–November 2015. Opening times: every first Monday in the month at 16.00, or with prior arrangement with brigita.zorec@lju-airport.si. Exhibition is free of charge. www.lju-airport.si

Kranj, June 2015 This publication was kindly supported by the Museum of Gorenjska, Institute for Tourism Kranj, Municipality of Kranj, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Elektro Gorenjska, Zavarovalnica Triglav, Gorenjska banka and Aerodrom Ljubljana.

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