Matija Jama

Together with Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar and Matej Sternen, he is considered among the best representatives of Impressionism in the Slovene Lands.

He then moved with his family to Zagreb, where he began to show an interest in painting when in higher grammar school.

With the support of the Carniolan Provincial Diet, he returned to Munich in 1897, where he enrolled in Anton Ažbe's art school.

Jama lived and worked in different places throughout Europe: Austria, Croatia, Germany and the Netherlands.

His idols in his later life, when he had "grown out" of his Secessionist period, were Italian and French Impressionists, amongst whom the most influential was Claude Monet.