{{short description|Slovene painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Slavko Pengov | image = Slavko Pengov ca.1945.jpg | caption = Pengov, c. 1945 | birth_name = Vladislav Pengov | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|06|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|01|06|1908|06|24|df=y}} | death_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia | field = painting | training = Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | movement = | works = Painting, murals and illustration | patrons = | awards = {{Awd|Levstik Award|1951|for Pod svobodnim soncem}}{{Awd|Prešeren Award|1959|for his frescos in the National Assembly Building}} }}
'''Slavko Pengov''' (24 June 1908 – 6 January 1966) was a Slovene painter best known for his monumental opus of murals such as those in the National Assembly Building in Ljubljana and the Parish Church of Saint Martin in Bled.<ref>[http://www.gpn.kranj.si/nagrade/nagrajenci/01015.htm Slavko Pengov on the Prešeren Laureate Gallery Kranj site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204191744/http://www.gpn.kranj.si/nagrade/nagrajenci/01015.htm |date=2012-02-04 }}</ref>
Pengov was born in Ljubljana in 1908 and baptized ''Vladislav Pengov''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Rojstna in krstna knjiga |date=1907–1911 |location=Ljubljana - Sv. Peter |page=74 |url=https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/slovenia/ljubljana/ljubljana-sv-peter/03989/?pg=78 |access-date=March 3, 2026}}</ref> He studied art at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1945 he taught at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana.
He also illustrated a number of books and won the Levstik Award in 1951 for his illustrations of Fran Saleški Finžgar's book ''Pod svobodnim soncem'' (Under A Free Sun).<ref>[http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site]</ref>
He taught painting to Aleksa Ivanc Olivieri.
In 1959 he received the Prešeren Award for his murals on the history of Slovenes in the National Assembly Building in Ljubljana.<ref>[http://www.mk.gov.si/fileadmin/mk.gov.si/pageuploads/Ministrstvo/Podrocja/Preseren/dosedanji_nagrajenci/2_Presernove_nagrade1947-2012.pdf Slovenian Ministry of Culture, complete list of the Grand Prešeren Awards recipients]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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