Background
Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from Škofja Loka. After his father"s death in 1884, his mother moved back to Škofja Loka where Gvido grew up.
Birolla was born in Trieste in 1881. His father was an Italian from Pazin and his mother a Slovene from Škofja Loka. After his father"s death in 1884, his mother moved back to Škofja Loka where Gvido grew up.
He studied in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
He died in Ljubljana in 1963.