The permanent graphic art, pastel and oil collection of Bozidar Jakac
		Bozidar Jakac (1899-1989), painter and graphic artist is tightly connected with Kostanjevica on the river Krka. His mother was from nearby Slinovce. Due to this, in 1974 he founded the Bozidar Jakac gallery, which carries his name, and donated many opus graphic art, pastel and oil works. Exhibited are two permanent collections: grahic art and pastels, and oils. Between 1919 and 1923 he studied painting and graphic art at the Academy of Prague. His studies were also perfected in Berlin and Paris. He travelled much throughout the world and noted his various impressions through paintings and graphic art and sometimes also by photography and film. He was one of the central initiators in establishing the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts, and was one of their permanent professors of graphic art as well as being first Chancellor of the university. Jakac's early works (1920's) are of expressionalistic thought. They are strongly influenced by Edward Munch. (Waltz, At the Cafe, Café Orchestra) His expressive note with time starts to settle down. His artistic expressive style starts to show a stronger incline to liristic realism, which prevails on a journey through Tunisia and later America (in the 1930's). The cycle of partisan graphic art is represented with realistic portraits. In post-war expressionism, Jakac continued expressing the dynamics of the Dolenjska area in a lyristic-realistic style. Some of the highest quality works, with symbolic emphasis in the later era, were created with coloured woodcuttings  (Teran Vine, The Last Star). Due to Jakac's intuitive capability of understanding the people and area, his art also carries a great documented value.
		Midnight on Hradcani, 1920 pastel
	Washington Self-portrait,  1930 oil on canvas
		Concert, 1921 woodcut
	Teran Vine , 1972 coloured woodcut