Stojan Batič (born in 1925)

Batič was born on 2nd June 1925 in Trbovlje. He worked in a coal mine in Trbovlje and then at 19 joined the Partisan army. He studied sculpture among the first generation of students at the
Academy of Fine Art in Ljubljana (he enrolled in 1945/1946 while still a serving officer), after graduation (1949) he pursued post-graduate studies in sculpture (1949 - 1951, graduating from the class of prof. Frančišek Smerdu). In 1957, as a recipient of the Prešeren Fund scholarship, he furthered his studies in Paris and worked in the studio of O. Zadkine for four months. Since 1951 he has been a freelance artist. Apart from other national awards, he has received the Prešeren Award for his work (1960). In 1974 a permanent exhibition of his works,the Miners' Series, was set up in the Batič Salon of the Museum of the Revolution in Trbovlje. His work includes large-scale monuments and public sculpture and statues for parks and fountains (in bronze and stone); small-scale sculpture (series such as the Miners' Series, Explosions, Satiriada, Tragos; he emphasises the subject with applied sculpture material); architectural decoration; reliefs; the artistic decoration of ships; portraits, drawing and graphic art.