Grohar was the most lyrical personage in the Slovenian Impressionist decade at the beginning of the 20th century. In spite of his exceptional talent, he was not admitted to the academy in Vienna after his schooling in Graz, due to lack of education. He tried to improve his artistic skills in Munich and painted on commission from the Church. The turn of the century also meant a turn in his style. He quickly began to develop a painting technique of his own which he partly derived from divisionism and related it to Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Several failures and his independent nature led him to Škofja Loka where he settled in 1904. He painted his best works there and moved from landscape motifs to monumental scenes of peasant labour. A few days before he could have left for a study tour through Italy he died in a hospital in Ljubljana, exhausted by tuberculosis and hardships of life.