Max Fabiani
| Max Fabiani | |
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Fabiani in 1902
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| Born |
29 April 1865 Kobdilj, County of Gorizia and Gradisca, Austrian Empire, today Slovenia |
| Died | 12 August 1962 (aged 97) Gorizia |
| Nationality | Slovene |
| Alma mater | Vienna College of Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings |
Urania palace Palace Portois & Fix |
| Projects | urban development plan for Ljubljana Sacro Cuore metropolitan church, Gorizia |
Maximilian Fabiani, commonly known as Max Fabiani (Slovene: Maks, Italian: Massimo) (29 April 1865 – 12 August 1962) was a cosmopolitan trilingual Slovenian Italian architect and town planner of mixed Italian-Austrian ancestry, born in the village of Kobdilj near Štanjel on the Karst Plateau, County of Gorizia and Gradisca, in present-day Slovenia. Together with Ciril Metod Koch and Ivan Vancaš, he introduced the Vienna Secession style of architecture (a type of Art Nouveau) in Slovenia.
Fabiani was born to father Antonio Fabiani, a Friulian latifondist from Paularo of Bergamasque ancestry, and mother Charlotte von Kofler, a Triestine aristocrat of Tyrolean origin. He grew up in a cosmopolitan trilingual environment: besides Italian, the language of his family, and Slovene, the language of his social environment, he learned German at a very young age.
He came from a wealthy family that could afford to provide a good education for its 14 children. He attended elementary school in Kobdilj, and the German- and Slovene-language Realschule in Ljubljana, where he was the best student in the class after seven years. He later moved to Vienna, where he attended architecture courses at the Vienna University of Technology. After earning his degree in 1889, a scholarship enabled him to travel for three years (1892–1894) to Asia Minor and through most of Europe. He was married and had two children; his son Lorenzo Fabiani (1907–1973) was an agronomist and journalist.
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