Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich.
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Anton Ažbe, 1904 photograph
Self-portrait, c. 1886![The Harem, the last known work by Ažbe. His opus magnum Odalisque has been lost (its existence attested by a single photograph made in 1902[19]).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Anton_A%C5%BEbe_1903_The_Harem.jpg/1280px-Anton_A%C5%BEbe_1903_The_Harem.jpg)
The Harem, the last known work by Ažbe. His opus magnum Odalisque has been lost (its existence attested by a single photograph made in 1902[19]).
The Village Choir, around 1900
Ažbe, himself a master of human anatomy (an 1886 class study pictured), enforced figure drawing studies that were bitterly resented by Wassily Kandinsky.Awards 2
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Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists, a whole generation of Russian painters, Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović, the Hungarian painter Sándor Ziffer or a Czech painter Ludvik Kuba.
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