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Jakopic, Rihard
(b Ljubljana, 12 April 1869; d Ljubljana, 21 April 1943). Slovenian painter. In 1887–9 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Franz Rumpler (1848–1922), in 1890 in Munich under Karl Raupp (1837–1918), and from 1903 to 1904 in Prague under Vojtech Hynais. He was the principal organizer of artistic and cultural life in Slovenia in his time. In 1909 an exhibition hall, the Jakopic Pavilion, Ljubljana, was erected on his initiative; he was also the founder of a private school of painting in Ljubljana and the originator of contemporary Slovenian art, together with his colleagues Ivan Grohar and Matej Sternen (1870–1949). At first he practised a similar style to that of Anton Azbé, under whom he had studied in Munich, but after seeing Monet’s paintings he turned enthusiastically to Impressionism. He painted series of pictures in which he tried to capture the atmosphere of the Slovenian landscape in the Impressionist manner. During 1903–5 he made informal experimental sketches whose dispersed composition and heavy impasto were like abstract colour studies, for example the Sunny Hillside (1903; Ljubljana, N. G.). From then until 1917 he mostly depicted brightly coloured interiors with vivid contrasts of cold and warm colours suggestive of the Fauvists, although in atmosphere and texture more akin to Intimisme.
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