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Veno Pilon, 1969
Veno Pilon
(22 September 1896 ? 23 September 1970) was a
Slovene
expressionist
painter,
graphic artist
and photographer.
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Biography
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Pilon was born in
Ajdov??ina
, 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
Ajdov??ina
in 1919, where he took up painting.
In the late 1920s Pilon moved to Paris, where he explored photography.
[2]
He died in
Ajdov??ina
.
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