Anton Ažbé
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Anton Ažbé (30 May 1862 - 5 August 1905) was a Slovenian painter and teacher who mainly worked in Germany.
He was born in Dolencice near Skofja Loka and studied in Ljubljana with Janez Wolf, who trained him in a style derived from Anselm Feuerbach and the work of the Nazarene movement. From 1882 to 1884, Ažbé studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, and then at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich from 1884 to 1891.
In the spring of 1891 he opened a private art school, the Azbe-Schule, which went on to establish a very good reputation. Igor Grabar joined him to teach there from 1898 to 1901. In addition to Wassily Kandinsky and Alexei Jawlensky, other notable students included the Slovenian Impressionist Matej Sternen, the Serbian Nadezda Petrovic, the Croatian Josip Račić, the Lithuanian Mstislavas Dobužinskis and the Czech Ludvík Kuba.
Ažbé died in Munich in 1905.
