Printmaking
Adolf Born — Windows
Adolf Born was a Czech painter, drawer, illustrator, animator, caricaturist, occasional photographer and costume designer. He has become famous mostly thanks to his work on an animated TV series called Max and Sally.
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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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Plastic arts
Alojz Rigele — Cardinal Pázmány
Alojz Rigele was one of the most popular and respected sculptors in Bratislava. In the early 20th century, he helped create the image of Slovakia’s capital and has remained a part of its genius loci until today, including its facades, churches, fountains, parks, memorials and cemeteries…
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Photography and other media
András Cséfalvay — Light of the World
Nitra Gallery’s Virtual Gallery presents the work titled Light of the World (2016). Cséfalvay has created a story of three whales (a sperm whale, blue whale, killer whale) crucified next to each other. Each one bearing its own cross, its own crucification, its own burden, wounds, pain…
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Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová — Canteen & Ratchet
Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová started to work together in 2000 during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Over the course of two decades, the creative duo have managed to entrench themselves at both the national and international art scenes. The artists are perceived as distinctive representatives of postfeminism and engaged art who are no strangers to provocation…
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Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová — Dialectics of Subjection # 1 /Holiday Video/
In 2000, already during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová started their joint projects. Over a decade this creative tandem has established themselves successfully on the Slovak and international scene.
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Painting
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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Drawing
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Raimund Josef Jan Wichera — Spring — Summer — Autumn
Wichera was better known for his figural and portrait paintings. While the artist’s early images are distinctively influenced by his Vienna mentor professor Hans Makart and carry a certain level of portrait realism, his later images from the 1890s…
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Author unknown — St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of Zobor Hermits
The author of the sacral baroque painting is an uknown middle European painter from the second half of the 18th century…
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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 Ambrušová — A Day by the Atlantic II.
The print titled A Day by the Atlantic II. is one of the more intimate pieces created by Slovak painter and illustrator Edita Ambrušová. The black and white world of lithography offers a surrealistic visual experience, perhaps a memory of the artist’s view and experience of the sea.
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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…
Painting
Edmund Massányi — Nitra Square
Massányi loved his hometown (Nitra) with its rich history, its significant viewpoints, corners, old crooked streets and history breathing buildings…
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Eduard Antal — Composition IV. & V.
Eduard Antal was an important representative of Slovak geometric abstract art. His work focused mostly on painting, printmaking, graphic design and monumental decorative elements in architecture.
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Photography and other media
Emőke Vargová — Self-portrait
Emőke Vargová produces paintings, objects and installations. She uses unconventional materials, such as wax and parafine, toy plastic characters, different found objects, as well as textile, wood, paper or plastic transparent materials. Her artwork is characterized by the gentle and modest female traits, she draws the topics from everyday and personal life experiences.
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Painting
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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Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková — Still-life
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, often called the first lady of the Slovak painting, was devoted to painting in which she was mainly familiar with the synthetic and late cubism of the 1910s and 1920s, but she also worked with scenic art, book illustration and poster…
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Eugen Krón — The Wounded
The individual expression of a painter, illustrator and the poster author Eugen Krón is shown especially in his graphic art, e.g. the litography The Wounded. The constructivist composition with expressionistic tones shapes in the figure of a young man a symbol…
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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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František Hübel — Citadel of Civilisation
Art and its history can sometimes easily and unfairly forget or not even notice. It has been the case of a painter, printmaker and illustrator František Hübel…
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František Viktor Podolay — Lonely Tree
Astounding beauty of landscape is always exhilarating. To be embraced by it, to examine its colour scale and diversity, where every plant…
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Gejza Angyal — Square in Kremnica
Gejza Angyal used luministic lightning style in his paintings which is typical for the Nagybánya artists’ colony and high profile artists such as Miháli Munkácsy, István Réti and others. There are also traces of the late 19th century French art in his work.
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Igor Benca — Searchers in the Land of the Missing VI
The graphic artist Igor Benca created a collection of graphic prints as a part of the representative bibliophilic publication that was published by the Nitra Gallery under the title The Searchers in the Land of the Missing in 1995.
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Igor Kalný — Untitled
The series called Bez názvu (Untitled) belongs to the cycle of interestingly structured geometrical ink drawings that Igor Kalný started to produce in 1984…
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Igor Minárik — Teared
Igor Minárik is an important Slovak representative of analytical painting…
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Photography and other media
Igor Peter Meluzin — Trump Tower
Igor Peter Meluzin is considered one of the key figures of Slovak action art of the 1980s and installation and intermedia art of the 1990s…
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Ilona Németh — Armchairs
The video installation Armchairs consists of four armchairs with characteristic design evoking the vintage furniture of the 1960s. They are intimately connected to the home environment of the author, the interior of the flat, based on her childhood rememberances…
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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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