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{{Short description|Slovenian artist (1896–1970)}}
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[[File:Edi Šelhaus - Veno Pilon (1969).jpg|thumb|Veno Pilon, 1969]]
'''Veno Pilon''' (22 September 1896 – 23 September 1970) was a [[Slovenes|Slovene]] [[expressionist]] painter, [[graphic artist]] and photographer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=STA: Retrospective of Veno Pilon Opens at Museum of Modern Art |url=https://english.sta.si/616397/retrospective-of-veno-pilon-opens-at-museum-of-modern-art |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=english.sta.si}}</ref> He was born and died in [[Ajdovščina]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Veno Pilon |url=https://museums.si/sl-si/Domov/Avtorji/Avtor?id=17498 |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=museums.si |language=sl-SI}}</ref>

== Biography ==

Pilon was born in [[Ajdovščina]], 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 (World War I)|Eastern front]] and was captured by the [[Russian Empire|Russian]] army. He later described his experience as a [[prisoner of war]] in the autobiography ''Na robu'' ("On the Edge"). He returned to [[Ajdovščina]] in 1919, where he took up painting and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.<ref name=":0" />

In the late 1920s Pilon moved to Paris, where he explored photography<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kako se je Veno Pilon "z vso vnemo oprijel fotografije" in ji ostal zvest do zadnjega dne |url=https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/film-in-tv/kako-se-je-veno-pilon-z-vso-vnemo-oprijel-fotografije-in-ji-ostal-zvest-do-zadnjega-dne/641308 |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=rtvslo.si |language=sl}}</ref> and translating Slovene literature into French.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Veno Pilon |url=https://www.vipavskadolina.si/en/zgodbe/naravna-in-kulturna-dediscina/veno-pilon |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=Vipava Valley {{!}} Official tourist web portal |language=en}}</ref> There he married a Frenchwoman Anne-Marie Guichard, an English teacher.

After a donation by his son, Dominique, his work is on permanent display at the Pilon Gallery in Ajdovščina.<ref name=":0" />

== Notable works ==

* [[Lacemaker (Portrait of Štefka Batič)]], 1923.

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.venopilon.com The Pilon Gallery]
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[[Category:Slovenian male painters]]
[[Category:Slovenian photographers]]
[[Category:1896 births]]
[[Category:1970 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ajdovščina]]
[[Category:Prešeren Award laureates]]
[[Category:20th-century Slovenian painters]]
[[Category:20th-century Slovenian male artists]]
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