Danica Šantel

Danica Šantel (1887 – 17 May 1921) was a Slovenian teacher, amateur artist and artist's model. She was part of the prominent family of artists and educators from Gorizia. She appears in lots of artworks by her mother or siblings.

Her mother, Avgusta von Aigentler (1852–1935), also known as Avgusta Aigentler Šantel, was a painter and later a painting teacher at the Girls' High School in Gorizia,

She was the youngest of seven children, four of whom reached adulthood: painter Henrika Šantel (1874–1940), painter, teacher and printmaker Avgusta Šantel (1876–1968), and painter and composer Saša Šantel (1883–1945) and her. Her first drawing teacher was her mother.

Career

Illness and death Her mother, sisters Henrika and Avgusta, brother Saša and nephew, around 1925. On the wall is a portrait of the late Danica, painted by her mother.

At a young age, she contracted tuberculosis.

In her mother’s art Danica was portrayed by her mother at least once more in the drawing:

Daughter Danica (ca. 1905, black chalk on paper) (Danica is depicted with her hair tied in a bun and wearing a necklace with a heart-shaped pendant around her neck.)

In her sister Henrika’s art

Henrika Šantel portrayed her sister Danica at least four more times: Sisters Avgusta and Danica with the dog Misili (1906, oil on canvas) – The sisters are depicted seated and sewing; Danica is wearing a red dress. The painting is held by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. Sister Danica (1915, watercolor) (In the painting, Danica is sitting at a table with flowers. She is wearing a pink dress and has a violet shawl draped over her.) Sister Danica (1917, miniature) (posthumous) Portrait of Sister Danica (1925, watercolor)

In her brother Saša’s work

Photography