Augusto Cernigoi Biography
(Trieste, 1898 – Sesana, 1985) Augusto Cernigoi was born as Avgust Černigoj into a Slovenian family in Trieste, where he completed his first studies. He graduated from the Bologna Academy. He carried out further studies at the Munich Academy and was the only Italian student to study at the famous Bauhaus school in Weimar. Having subsequently returned to Trieste, he left it again, in the years 1920 and 1921, to teach drawing at the Postojna school and then, after his return from the Bauhaus, to teach at the Technical Institute of Ljubljana until 1925, where he met and became friends with poet Srečko Kosovel. Finally he returned permanently to Trieste and in this city he worked frequently, as a painter and decorator, on the ocean-going ships that left those shipyards. During the Second World War he frescoed several churches in Yugoslavia and in the Italian Venezia Giulia: Dresenza Picco, Fontana del Conte, Grahovo and Bač. After the end of the war he taught until 1970 in the gymnasium and at the Slovenian teacher training institute in Trieste. He spent the last five years of his life in Lipica (Lipica) in the then Yugoslavia, close to the border with Italy.
