Danica Šantel
Slovenian teacher, amateur artist and art model
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.
Early life
Danica Šantel was born in 1887 in Gorizia into a nationally conscious Slovenian family.
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, Her father, Anton Šantel (1845–1920), was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the Gorizia high school.
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
After completing primary school, in 1902 she began attending the teacher training college.
There, in 1906, she graduated as a teacher for elementary schools with Slovenian and German as the languages of instruction. That same year, she took a position as a teacher at an elementary school in Gorizia, where she worked for two years.
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