Maksim Gaspari

Maksim Gaspari (26 January 1883 – 14 November 1980) was a Slovene painter best known for his paintings and illustrations as well as numerous postcards with folklore motifs and scenes from rural life.

Later he studied in Munich for a while and settled in Ljubljana in 1913, where he taught art.

Gaspari is today best known for his postcards with rural motifs and greetings as well as political messages.

A collection of his postcards is held by the National and University Library in Ljubljana.

He won the Levstik Award in 1949 for his illustrations of Korney Chukovsky's Čuri-Muri velikan (The Monster Cockroach).