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SEE MAKS BERGANT'S

WORKS IN PERSON

Maks Bergant’s most prominent and largest works date from the period between 1960 and 1990. It is unfathomable how the master’s hands managed to carve and gild such an immense number of frames for paintings and mirrors, candlesticks and chandeliers, sculpt so many angelic heads, and restore many old carvings. These works have found their home in Slovenian churches and in family homes across the former Yugoslavia, Europe, and America. Bergant’s greatest works remain, as the author liked to say, “permanently exhibited” in churches, oblivious to the undeserved anonymity of their creator.

May this be a starting point for further studies of the master carver’s work, and a compliment to a life dedicated to beauty. ​

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LOCATIONS

BASILICA OF ST. MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS

BREZJE, SLOVENIA

His best-known production is the aura of golden flames that frames the painting of Our Lady of Brezje.

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CHURCH OF ST. BENEDICT

STRANJE, SLOVENIA

Bergant's first collaboration with Jože Plečnik, which turned into
a genuine friendship.

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CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

KAMNIK, ŠUTNA, SLOVENIA

Another collaboration with Plečnik where Bergant solved a technical problem with an elegant solution.

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CATHEDRAL OF

ST. NICHOLAS

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Bishop's throne with angels and ornaments and an altar frame.

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ST. PETER'S CHURCH

KOMENDA, SLOVENIA

Altar table, ambon, carvings near the crypt, and a frame.

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CHURCH OF ST. JAMES

ŠKOFJA LOKA, SLOVENIA

One of Maks Bergant's many gilded altar frames.

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CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Altar frames for the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation.

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CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S AND JOSEPH'S ENGAGEMENT

KAMNIK, ŽALE, SLOVENIA

Altar table with carved ornaments and a restored old choir rail.

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CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS

ŽALEC, SLOVENIA

One of Bergant's large altar frames and a candlestick.

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BASILICA OF ST. MARY MOTHER OF MERCY

MARIBOR, SLOVENIA

Frame and candlesticks.

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CHURCH OF ST. ANTHONY OF PADOVA

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Altar frame and monstrance bases.

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ST. PETER'S CHURCH

BELGRADE, SERBIA

Altar frame and candlestick.

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