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Artwork of the month:
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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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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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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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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Ervín Semian — Marienka & Girl in a White Sweater
The two female portraits by Ervín Semian were created at the dawn of the artist’s life…
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Gustáv Adolf Schüle — Nitra Castle
Artists in the past centuries, more than at present, were attracted by panoramic views of Nitra and its dominant, the castle of Nitra…
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Jozef Srna ml. — Pier
Jozef Srna ml. is the son of a forgotten (but distinctive) painter Jozef Srna st. [Sr.] who also uses features of a similarly constricted or even underdog-like creative style…
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Jozef Srna Sr. — At a Bridge & Dawn & Summer
Jozef Srna Sr. is one of the artists of the 20th century we are very familiar with, but in a certain sense, he is still unknown within the concept of the national art history…
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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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Maximilián Schurmann — Women of Dražovce & Sketch and Study for Women of Dražovce
There is an interesting story related to the Women of Dražovce painting which leads to a speculation whether the artist had some kind of a suspicion of the tragic fate of one of the women. It has been described by Štefan Valent, the first director of Nitra Gallery and Schurmann’s personal friend…
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Michal Studený — Contemporary Still Life
The Contemporary Still Life image is from the 1980s when the artist had already been on the art scene for twenty years. What connects him to his early works from the 1960s is the depicted reality of ordinary life…
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Patrik Ševčík — Conformism
Two of the Conformism – Alternative cycle canvases are a part of the Nitra Gallery collection and they come from Ševčík’s early period…
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Rudolf Sikora — From the Cycle * => † (Touches)
Rudolf Sikora is one of the most distinctive figures of Slovak visual art not just because one cannot “overlook” or “overhear” his physical appearance…
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Slamka Ľudovít — The Escape
One of the brilliant artworks by this artist is an expressive painting ´The Escape´ using oil technique, dating from 1940-50…
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Studený František — In Front of the Door
The work was created during 1939, when poverty and suffering of Slovak nation – as a result of the Great Depression at the beginning of the 1930s…
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