Maks Koželj, Kamnik-Savinja Alps, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, year 1939, framed. Dimensions: 78 x 67 cm (+ frame 8 cm).

Maks Koželj (1883–1956) came from a family of painters from Kamnik. Besides him, his father Matija Koželj and his older brother Anton also painted. There are only a few authors whose extensive oeuvre speaks of so much love for the mountains and with the knowledge and realistic depiction of all the painted views of the mighty peaks that the painter himself has traversed. His many depictions of the town of Kamnik and the magnificent Grintovci can be found in excellent watercolors and in the oil technique; always in a rich color scale, in search of ever new light (the closest to him was the mountain landscape, illuminated by the morning sun or in the evening radiance) and picturesque motifs. (https://www. muzej-kamnik-on.net/maks-kozelj-o-pl-planine-z-ovckami-in-znamenjem-okoli-1935/)