Razglednice Melite Rojic v arhivu Narodne galerije

Until now it has not yet been emphasized that Melita Rojic (1879-1924), a woman from Gorica, was a member of the academic society Vesna. This article is an attempt to show that the painter internalized the tasks of the society and that this indirectly influenced her choice of her “ethnological” motifs. What is more, she fulfilled an important requirement of the society: publishing postcard motifs. The article also focuses on the as-yet-unpublished correspondence between the painter and the editor of Slovan, Fran Ilešič, a correspondence that contains a preserved handwritten biography of Rojic. After the Second World War Gorica became a part of Italy and, not being familiar with the biography of Rojic, National Gallery Director Karel Dobida (1896–1964) corresponded with the painter’s cousin to acquire information about her life in order to compile a lexicon headword. For the first time, the article reveals the correspondence between Dobida and Pavla Makuc, who passed on to him eleven printed postcards by Rojic. The landscape motifs undoubtedly display a documentary value. This type of site depiction also represents a continuation of the former vedute painting; moreover, contemporaries consider them to be the only witness of former views of Slovenian sites – not only panoramas but also views of individual specific areas