Anton Ažbe

Anton Ažbe (* May 30, 1862 in Dolenčice, community Gorenja vas - Poljane, Upper Carniola, Slovenia; † August 6, 1905 in Munich) was a Slovenian born in Austria - Hungary painter.

Life

Ažbe began his artistic training as a student of Janez Wolf in Ljubljana ( Laibach ). In the fall of 1882 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1884 at the Munich Academy. There he attended the class antiques and moved in 1885 to the General painting school of Ludwig von Löfftz. After attending the special class of Professor Sándor Wagner he founded in 1891 in Munich, a private painting school, which was at first, and later housed in the Turkish road in George Street 16. His students included, inter alia, Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Karl Friedrich Lippmann, Countess Franziska zu Reventlow, Hans Huber Sulzemoos, Erma Bossi and Eugeniusz Zak. Ažbe itself became an important figure of the Munich art scene.