Jakopič was a particularly outstanding personality in Slovenian art. He deserved a special place in the artistic pantheon not only as an excellent painter but also as a man who integrated art into a broader social context. At his own expense he erected in 1909 the first public art gallery in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana; in collaboration with Sternen, and later on his own, he led a painting school; he was among the founders of the National Gallery of Slovenia, patron of the so-called “spring of Novo mesto”, and a founding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. After the First World War he upgraded his lyrical and symbolistic Impressionist manner with expressionistically vigorous brushstroke and vivid colours, keeping to the motifs of the River Sava near Tacen, birch trees, work in the fields, and later also still lifes as his leading themes.