death_place death_date birth_place training awards nationality field birth_date works article_title name
ljubljana , slovenia 06 january 1966 ljubljana , slovenia academy of fine arts , zagreb levstik 1959 for his frescos in the national assembly building award 1951 for pod svobodnim soncem prešeren award slovenian painting 24 june 1908 painting , murals and illustration slavko pengov
 slavko pengov
slavko pengov

slavko pengov -lrb- 24 june 1908 - 6 january 1966 -rrb- was a slovene painter best known for his monumental opus of murals such as those in the national assembly building in ljubljana and the parish church of saint martin in bled .
pengov was born in ljubljana in 1908 .
he studied art at the zagreb academy of fine arts and the academy of fine arts vienna .
from 1945 he taught at the academy of arts in ljubljana .
he also illustrated a number of books and won the levstik award in 1951 for his illustrations of fran saleški finžgar 's book `` pod svobodnim soncem '' -lrb- under a free sun -rrb- .
in 1959 he received the prešeren award for his murals on the history of slovenes in the national assembly building in ljubljana .
