The Academy of Fine Arts and Design , is a prestigious art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 academy

Academy

An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. In the western world academia is the...

 and institution based in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, Slovenia

Slovenia

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 . It is part of the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. With 64,000 enrolled graduate and postgraduate students, it is among the largest universities in Europe.-Beginnings:...

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Over the years many of Slovenia's most noted painters and artists have taught or been a member of the academy. From 1945 to 1961, Božidar Jakac

Božidar Jakac

Božidar Jakac was a Slovene Expressionist, Realist and Symbolist painter, graphic artist, art teacher, photographer and filmmaker. He produced one of the most extensive oeuvres of pastels and oil paintings , drawings and, above all, graphics in Slovenia...

 taught graphic arts at the academy where he also served as a dean three times. The current dean of the Academy is Stane Bernik.

Notable faculty

• Božidar Jakac
  Božidar Jakac
  Božidar Jakac was a Slovene Expressionist, Realist and Symbolist painter, graphic artist, art teacher, photographer and filmmaker. He produced one of the most extensive oeuvres of pastels and oil paintings , drawings and, above all, graphics in Slovenia...
  
   (1899–1989)
• Boris Kalin
  Boris Kalin
  -Biography:Kalin was born in Solkan, which was then a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian town of Gorizia and is now part of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. He attended the technical secondary school in Ljubljana and continued his studies between 1924 and 1929 at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts with the...
  
   (1905–1975)
• Gojmir Anton Kos
  Gojmir Anton Kos
  Gojmir Anton Kos was a Slovene academic painter, a photographer and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.-Biography:...
  
   (1896–1970)
• Adriana Maraž
  Adriana Maraž
  Adriana Maraž is a Slovene graphic artist. She studied painting and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She had many solo exhibitions and has participated in the Graphic Art Biennales in Ljubljana...
  
   (born 1931)
• Miki Muster
  Miki Muster
  Miki Muster is a Slovenian academic sculptor, illustrator, cartoonist and animator. He's best known for his comic books with the characters Zvitorepec, Trdonja and Lakotnik and many others.- References :...
  
   (born 1925)
• Igor Torkar
  Igor Torkar
  Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin was a Slovenian writer, playwright and poet, most famous for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II.- Life :...
  
  (1913–2004)

External links

• Academy of Fine Arts and Design. Homepage. Accessed on 2008-04-17.