Valentin Oman   

Austrian (St. Stefan, 1935)

“Wiener Fragmente”

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Much of Oman’s art addresses the plight of the ethnic minority of Carinthian Slovenes in Austria, where their language and customs are threatened by the German-speaking and oriented majority. Educated in Vienna at the University of Applied Arts and in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oman is a painter, sculptor, printmaker and creator of public art installations. His recent public art consists of the disappearing Slovenian place names of the Carinthian region cast in metal.