Ive Šubic


Ive Šubic was a Yugoslav painter, printmaker, and illustrator.
Šubic was born in the village of Hotovlja near Poljane above Škofja Loka in 1922. He enrolled in the Zagreb Academy of Arts in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. He joined the Partisans in 1941 and participated in the Battle of Dražgoše, the monument to which he later participated in designing. After the war he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under Gojmir Anton Kos and Božidar Jakac. He graduated in 1948. He is known for his paintings, linocuts and other prints, illustrations, and murals. He died in Škofja Loka in 1989.
In 1968 he won the Prešeren Foundation Award for the exhibition of his art at the Škofja Loka Museum. In 1979 he won the Grand Prešeren Award for his creative achievements. He also won the Levstik Award for his illustrations five times: in 1949, 1951, 1967, 1969, and 1971.
The Ive Šubic Art Workshop, held every year in Škofja Loka since 1997, is named after him.

Selected illustrated works

Uporne Dražgoše by Ivo Zorman, 1978 Dolga pot by Kristina Brenk, 1973Kos rženega kruha by Ferdo Godina, 1971Mladost v džungli by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, 1969Tolminski punt by France Bevk, 1968Spomini na deda in druge zgodbe by Josip Jurčič, 1967Jugoslavija, by France Planina 1967Smeh skozi solze by France Bevk, 1959Kralj Matjaž reši svojo nevesto by Mile Klopčič, 1951Nejček by Zoran Hudales, 1949