Stane Kregar, a painter, a priest, a teacher, Prešeren's prize winner, graduated from the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. After returning to Ljubljana, HE began to exhibit in 1937 within the Club of Independent Slovenian Artists. In the development of Slovenian art of the twentieth century, he significantly intervened with surrealism and colorfull abstraction.
The developmental of the various orientations - whether they are realistic, cubist, surrealistic or abstract his works realate to melancholly. He also created watercolors, drawings, patterns for tapestries and ecclesiastical clothing, while in larger formations he created frescoes, mosaics and painted windows.
Deep humanism, responses to current, but humanly relevant content, the division between real and superior, between consciously and subconsciously, the experience of light and colors through the landscape and their echoes in abstract paintings, the rhythmic structure of the composition, these are the main characteristics of Kregar's painting. The words of Emilian Tevc, who linked Kregar with similar religious and spiritual beliefs, poetically define the work of the artist as an illusion of hope, as a shadowy shadow and a scream of mourning.
