'Ivana Kobilca' (December 20, 1861 - December 4, 1926) was a Slovene realist painter who lived, worked and studied in various European cities including Vienna, Sarajevo, Berlin, Paris and Munich. She was a member of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Many of her paintings are still lifes and portraits and of country settings. She later tended toward impressionism.

Her best known paintings are Kofetarica (Coffeemadam), 1888; Citrarica (The zitherist), Likarice (Women ironer), 1891, Holandsko dekle (A Dutch girl), Portret sestre Fani (Portrait of sister Fani), 1889; and Poletje (Summer), 1889.

Her portrait is on Slovene national currency tolar for 5.000 SIT.

See also

• List of Slovenes.

External links

• Ivana Kobilica at National Gallery in Ljubljana (in Slovene)