 He settled in Ljubljana in 1901, renting a small room in a slum building on the banks of the river Ljubljanica (an abandoned sugar factory, known as "Cukrarna").He died there at the age of 22 from tuberculosis, on the same bed as his friend Dragotin Kette just two years before.He is buried in the Žale cemetery, next to the tombs of Dragotin Kette, Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, in what is known as the "monument of Slovene modernism" ("Spomenik slovenske moderne").