Avgust Cernigoj - Artist Info

About Avgust Cernigoj

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Augusto Cernigoi
  • Biography

    Avgust Cernigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi (August 24, 1898, - November 17, 1985) was a Slovene painter, known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism.

    He was born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He finished Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Trieste, continuing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Later on, he attended the Bauhaus school of crafts and fine arts in Weimar, which had a profound impact on his development as an artist, having come into contact with Abstraction, the Russian avant-garde and particularly Constructivism through the works and teachings of Wassily Kandinsky, who brought it from Russia.

    He returned to Slovenia, where he beca...

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