BOŽIDAR JAKAC Painter; (b. Novo Mesto, 16 July 1899 – d. Ljubljana, 20 November 1989)

Painter and print-maker; university professor: Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana: full professor and the first rector (from 1945)

Membership of SASA: Department of Fine Arts and Music; corresponding member from 5 December 1963; transferred into the status of external member

Accession speech: Contribution – five prints. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 377 : 26 (1964)

Biography and bibliography: God. / SANU 70 (1965) 451–452.

Awards and recognitions:  bronze medal of the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris (1925); Prešern Award (1947; 1948; 1949; 1989); prize of the Town of Ljubljana (1965); AVNOJ Award (1967); Order of Brotherhood and Unity of the 2^nd degree; Order of Labour of the first degree

Obituary: God. / SANU 96 (1990) 569–570 (S. Ćelić)

Photograph: SANU F–547