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Adam Šakový — 1914 & Still Alive 4
Two titles from Adam Šakový’s monumental painting cycle became a part of Nitra Gallery’s collection in 2017…
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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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Artwork of the month:
Ľudovít Slamka —On Pasture by the Nitra River
We are looking at the opposite river bank whose left side is covered in trees and there is a woman with three cows on the right. The image is very sketch-like, relaxed, the background melts into blurred colours, the small surface area of the painting captures the atmosphere very convincingly, without the need for any details to fill in the blanks…
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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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Bedrich Hoffstädter — Landscape
Watercolour painting in smaller format Landscape depicts a natural landscape, the composition of which consists of three plans. In the first, the artist depicts cattle grazing on a grassy area, the second plan shows mountains and the third is finished with the sky…
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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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Dorota Sadovská — Short corporal dictionary of saints
The cycle of 9 acrylic paintings Krátky telesný slovník svätých/Short corporal dictionary of saints is designed as a modern visual lexicon of saints. As the title says, it is not a depiction of figures as such, but rather a presentation of the attributes which possess the form of fragments of the human body…
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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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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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Elvíra Antalová — Agricultural Fields I
The Nitra Gallery collection contains 24 pieces by Elvíra Antalová (born Knotková), mostly from the 1960 and 1970s (with one exception – Paučina Lehota from 1956). Despite the fact the oil painting Agricultural Fields I is from the 1970s and it is not a part of the artist’s early creative period…
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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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Erik Šille — Untitled
Erik Šille is probably the best known member of a distinctive generation of painters that are associated with the 4th Studio of Ivan Csudai at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava….
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