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Slovenian artist
Gender
Male
Star sign
VirgoBirth
22 September 1896, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Death
23 September 1970, Ajdovščina, Slovenia (aged 74 years)
Age
74 years
Awards
Prešeren Award
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Biography
Veno Pilon (22 September 1896 – 23 September 1970) was a Slovene expressionist painter, graphic artist and photographer.
Biography
Pilon was born in Ajdovščina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Gorizia and Gradisca (now in Slovenia). After he had finished the Gorizia Grammar School, he was drafted by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. He fought on the Eastern front and was captured by the Russian army. He later described his experience as a prisoner of war in the autobiography Na robu ("On the Edge"). He returned to Ajdovščina in 1919, where he took up painting.
In the late 1920s Pilon moved to Paris, where he explored photography.
He died in Ajdovščina.
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