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Alojz Klimo — Small Crossroads III
Alojz Klimo, together Milan Dobeš and Miloš Urbásek, is considered to be the founding representative of constructionist and geometrical art in Slovakia. He was the first who started with the reduction of the painting’s space into elementary geometrical forms…
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Anton Jasusch — Mood Landscape
Anton Jasusch was the most important representative of “Košice modernism”[1] and one of the most important personalities of Slovak art of the first half of the 20th century. He created his original painting program that was based on expressionistic-Art Nouveau language, abstracting shapes, captivating play with colour and addressing basic ontological questions…
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Bohdan Hostiňák — A Step into the Void
Oil on canvas titled A Step into the Void can be perceived continually among other works where the author blends together the landscape topic he has developed since the late nineties and the motive of animals and small insects, which appeared in his works right at the beginning of his career in the early nineties..
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Daniel Fischer — Painting in Landscape No. 15 and Painting in Landscape No. 17/11
Daniel Fischer is one of the key Slovak painters of the second half of the 20th century. He entered the art scene in the middle of 1970s (already formed by the so-called unofficial art scene) and created he own unique author program.
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Edita Spannerová — Reflected Light & Open Horizons & Dreaming
Nitra Gallery’s depository includes sixteen pieces of art by the Slovak painter Edita Spannerová.
The virtual gallery presents three of them…
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Erik Binder — Woodoo Čičmoney
he Woodoo Čičmany painting is a part of the Nitra Gallery’s collection and belongs to a series of paintings of the same name. Erik Binder is one of a very few artists in Slovakia who have adopted the technique of spray paint on canvas which has its roots in graffiti and street art…
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Ernest Špitz — Singer
The painting in Nitra Gallery’s collection belongs to a free cycle depicting classical music concerts or musicians playing classical instruments.
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Eugen Nevan — Sitting „In Spanish Costume”
Eugen Nevan is usually recognised as a part of Slovak interwar fine art modernism, also known as Generation 1909, specifically its so-called “Prague branch”.
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Imrich Weiner-Kráľ — June (from the cycle The Wood)
Imrich Weiner-Kráľ is considered one of the most important representatives of the Slovak version of surrealism, the so-called “over-realism” [nadrealizmus in Slovak] in fine art. Many art theorists find the general notion of linking his work to surrealism problematic…
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Ján Hala — With Lunch
Ján Hála was a Czech painter, drawer, illustrator and folklore documentarist who spent most of his life in Slovakia. His works are evergreens at Slovak (and Czech) auctions – alongside other representatives of Slovak modernism, like Benka and Fulla, his works receive some of the highest bids. He also illustrated…
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Janko Alexy — Woman of Kozárovce
Janko Alexy was a painter, writer, publicist and cultural life enthusiast. He is one of the founding fathers of Slovak Modernism. He was very active at both the cultural and the social scenes. For example, after the Second World War, he played an important role in the preservation and restoration of Bratislava Castle.
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Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič — The Evacuation of Slovak Elites
Two women and a man, dressed in traditional Slovak folk costumes, are standing in a field behind a village at the foot of majestic Slovak peaks, watching the take off of a spaceship (a conglomerate of various rocket modules), with a yellow Lamborghini happily parked next to it.
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Jaroslav Augusta — Feeding Horses
The small painting on paper depicts two men dressed in folk costumes (shepherds or farmers) at a horse water trough. One of them is leaning on a staff which can also be a folk musical instrument (a pipe, horn or a trembita). The other one, seemingly older, is leaning on a smaller staff (a pickaxe), smoking a pipe.
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