BOGDAN BORCHI mod (1926, Ljubljana-2014, Slovenj Gradec), painter and graphic artist, attended the Matej Sternen painting school and the French Gorshet Drawing School in Ljubljana in 1943/44. 1944. he was interned in Dachau concentration camp for many years. He studied at the Ljubljana Academy, where he was later a professor, and studied in Paris. In 2005, he was awarded the Preserna prize for his life's work. He is one of the key artists of contemporary Slovenian painting and one of the main representatives of the so-called Ljubljana School of graphic arts. His oeuvre very clearly shows the development of modernist painting from realistic motif rendering, through the phase of gradual unfolding to a complete-minimalist and finally the so-called associative abstraction, with a substantive basis on the topic of existentialism. In the graphic cabinet (from 2001 onwards) we keep 1067 author's graphic sheets, to which Bogdan Borchiiyi has added 393 author's drawings in three series. The study cabinet is complemented by a collection of exhibition catalogues by Bogdan Borchi / GK and a pedagogical display of the most basic graphic tools. Every year in the Cabinet we arrange a new layout of the author's works, where we try to present it in chronological cycles.
BOGDAN BORČIĆ (1926, Ljubljana – 2014, Slovenj Gradec), slikar in grafik, je v letih 1943/44 obiskoval slikarsko šolo Mateja Sternena in risarsko šolo Franceta Goršeta v Ljubljani. 1944. leta je bil interniran v koncentracijsko taborišče Dachau. Študiral je na ljubljanski akademiji, kjer je bil kasneje tudi profesor, ter se študijsko izpopolnjeval v Parizu. Leta 2005 je za življenski opus prejel Prešernovo nagrado. Je eden izmed ključnih umetnikov sodobnega slovenskega slikarstva in eden izmed glavnih predstavnikov t.i. Ljubljanske grafične šole. Njegov opus zelo nazorno prikazuje razvoj modernističnega slikarstva od realističnega motivnega upodabljanja, čez fazo postopnega razpredmetljanja do popolne – minimalistične in končno t.i. asociativne abstrakcije, z vsebinskim opiranjem na tematiko eksistencializma. V grafičnem kabinetu (od 2001 dalje) hranimo 1067 avtorskih grafičnih listov, temu pa je Bogdan Borčić v treh serijah dodal še 393 avtorskih risb. Študijski kabinet dopolnjuje še zbirka katalogov razstav Bogdana Borčića, ter pedagoški prikaz najosnovnejšega grafičnega orodja. Vsako leto v kabinetu poskrbimo za novo postavitev avtorjevih del, kjer ga poskušamo predstaviti v kronoloških ciklih.
