Aleksa Ivanc Olivieri

Aleksa Ivanc Olivieri (11 August 1916 – 11 June 2010) was a Slovenian painter, graphic designer and art restorer. From 1965 she lived and worked in France.

Early life She was born into a Slovenian family on 11 August 1916 in Spodnja Šiška, Ljubljana. Her mother, Marija Kolar, worked as a maidservant and her father, Jakob Ivanc, was a railway employee. She attended primary school (meščanska šola) in Ljubljana. She graduated in 1950 and then specialized in art conservation and restoration. Her first Nativity sheets were made in 1944 but were lost during the war. She was particularly drawn to medieval frescoes. Her copy of the Three Kings from Mače appeared in a traveling exhibition of Yugoslav frescoes shown in major European capitals.

Later life Her first exhibition in Slovenia after leaving in the 1950s was organized in 1996 at the St. Stanislav's Institute by the émigré association Slovenija v svetu (Slovenia in the World). She is buried in the village of Occiglione (Santa-Reparata-di-Balagna) on Corsica. The film includes archival footage shot in 1994 at the artist's home on Corsica by cinematographer Jože Jagrič. Kam potujejo oblaki?, Rafko Vodeb (Rome, 1953) Na steni spi čas, Branko Rozman (Rome, 1954) Pot iz doline, Vinko Beličič (Trieste, 1954) Ecce homo – Križev pot, Via crucis, Dane Zajc (2004)