A Smiling Man
created: 13. 01. 2022 13:30 modified: 13. 01. 2022 13:37
The painting of wood depicts the face of a smiling man. The author of the painting is Roman Husár, the pupil from the Elementary School in Jarovnice. He painted the object at 11 years old when attended the 5th grade. The year when the painting was painted is not mentioned at the descriptive label. The painting's name is written in English: The Smiling Man.
Painting on wood was initiated by Jan Sajko. This kind of creative work with his students started in 1986. He was using waste wood of various sorts, best with flaws at those determined the way of future painting.
The painting is painted on a piece of wood, 21 cm in the width at its widest part, 93,5 cm of height. The thickness of the wood is 2 cm in the thickest part, the thickness gradually decreases. The backside is labeled with descriptive label, the handle is on the upper part.
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tags: secular material artistic 3D artifact painting Roman Husár general audience internal
Landscape
created: 13. 01. 2022 13:04 modified: 13. 01. 2022 13:05
The painting on wood depicts the landscape with three wooden houses. The author of the painting is Lukáš Giňa, the pupil from the Elementary School in Jarovnice. He painted the object at 11 years old when attended the 5th grade. The year when the painting was painted is not mentioned at the descriptive label. The painting's name is Landscape.
Painting on wood was initiated by Jan Sajko. This kind of creative work with his students started in 1986. He was using waste wood of various sorts, best with flaws at those determined the way of future painting.
The painting is painted on a piece of wood, 22 cm in the width at its widest part, 21 cm of height. The thickness of the wood is 2 cm in the thickest part, the thickness gradually decreases. The backside is labeled with descriptive label, the handle is on the upper part.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 3D artifact painting Lukáš Giňa general audience internal
Accordeonist
created: 22. 12. 2021 11:19 modified: 22. 12. 2021 11:19
The painting of a musician. Painted by Kristián Husár, a pupil of the Primary School in 192 Jarovnice. Painted on drawing paper of A3 type, created in 2015. It depicts a male musician playing accordion.
On the back of the drawing is a label with identification information about the school, the author and the title of the painting in English.
The school is known for winning many awards for the art work of its students, both at home and abroad (India, Japan, Portugal, USA, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Northern Macedonia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iran, etc.). The pupils are taught by Mgr. Ján Sajko. They exhibited independently in many cities, e.g. in Washington D.C., Boston, Palm Beach, Hannover, Strassbourg, Brussels, Graz, Warsaw, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, Bratislava, Košice, Martin, Prešov, Sabinov. The young authors come from socially disadvantaged environment.a.
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tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Kristián Husár general audience internal
Katarína Taikon Langhammer
created: 08. 07. 2021 10:46 modified: 08. 07. 2021 10:51
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
KATARINA TAIKON LANGHAMMER
She was born on July 29, 1932, Almby, Sweden. She was a Swedish Roma activist, leader of the civil rights movement, writer and actress, from the Roma group Kalderash. The sister of the jeweler Rosa Taikon. Through her political and media activity, she fought for the acquisition of civil rights for the Roma in Sweden. She managed to change the main stereotypical views of the major society through her literary work; between the years 1963 and 1980 she published 16 sequels of children's books about the Roma girl Katitzi. Her stories are still very popular, even films were made of them. Katarina Taikon, for her political activism, is often compared to Martin Luther King. She died on 30 December 1995, Ytterhogdal, Sweden.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Katarína Taikon general audience internal
Cinka Panna
created: 08. 07. 2021 10:29 modified: 08. 07. 2021 10:31
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
CINKA PANNA
She was born in 1711 in Gemer, Hungarian Kingdom. A violin virtuoso, multi instrumentalist, lead violinist of a Romani band, composer, also called "Gypsy Sapfó". She came from a family of Romani musicians. She was tutored by the local nobleman Láni, who sponsored her study of music in Rožňava. Together with her husband Dányi, a cellist, she founded a band where she was both a lead violinist and a composer. She performed dressed in men's clothing, which had elements of a kuruc uniform. She wrote her works in the book Hungarian Collection in 1730. She is the author of short compositions - halgato. She died on February 5, 1772 in Gemer, Hungarian Kingdom.
category: visual art
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Tera Fabianová
created: 08. 07. 2021 10:07 modified: 08. 07. 2021 10:13
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
TERA FABIANOVÁ
She was born on October 15, 1930 in Žiharec in Slovakia. A member of the older generation of Romani writers. Her talent was discovered by the Czech romist Milena Hübschmannová, who encouraged her to write in Romani. She debuted in the magazine Romano ľil in 1960s with her short stories. Her book Čavargoš /Wanderer (1992) belongs to the fantasy genre. It appealed to the general public in Czech Republic, therefore its audio version was made in Czech Radio, voiced by Vlastimil Brodský. The autobiographical work How I Went to School (1992) about a witty Romani girl attending school during 2nd World War is considered her masterpiece. In 2006 she received The Literary Award of Milena Hübschmannová for her live-long work. She died on March 22, 2007 in Prague, in Czech Republic.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Tera Fabianová general audience internal
Věra Bílá
created: 08. 07. 2021 09:50 modified: 08. 07. 2021 09:51
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
VĚRA BÍLÁ
She was born on May 22, 1954, Rokycany, Czech Republic. She was a singer, musician and actress. She came from the well-known musical family of Karol Giňa. Her unique voice color and specific vocal expression have secured her a permanent place on the music scene at home and abroad. In 1995, together with young musicians (Emil "Bišu" Miko, Emil "Pupa" Miko, Jan Dužda, Deziderius Lučka and Milan Kroka, later he was replaced by Marek Miko), they created the musical phenomenon of Věra Bílá and Kale. Musically, they defined a genre known as rom-pop: sophisticated vocal harmonies with vigorous dissonances in a mixture of Romani folk music, pop and Latin jazz. Věra Bílá also acted in two films by director Dušan Hanák: Pink Dreams (1976), I Love, You Love (1980). In May 1999, with the group Kale, she thrilled the Czech-American audience in Washington D.C. and in New York, where she performed as the leading star at the festival of the Romani culture from Czech Republic. Music experts often likened Věra Bílá to the American black star Elle Fitzgerald. She died on March 12, 2019 in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Věra Bílá general audience internal
Johann Wilhelm Rukeli Trollmann
created: 08. 07. 2021 09:40 modified: 08. 07. 2021 09:42
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
JOHANN WILHELM "RUKELI" TROLLMANN
He was born on December 27, 1907 in Wilsche, Germany. His Romani name Rukkeli means tree, due to his height and perfectly straight posture. He grew up in Hanover, along with eight siblings. He was a regional boxing champion, later a professional boxer. In 1933, athletes of non-Aryan origin were excluded from the boxing clubs, including the Sinto Trollmann. In June 1933 he became the German lightweight champion, eight days later his title was taken away. He was imprisoned in the Hannover-Ahlem labor camp, recruited to the Wehrmacht in 1939, wounded on the Eastern Front and in 1942 imprisoned in the Neuengamme concentration camp. After severe abuse, he was murdered in 1944 in a camp in Wittenberge.
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tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Johann Wilhelm Rukeli Trollmann general audience internal
Margita Reiznerová
created: 08. 07. 2021 08:45 modified: 08. 07. 2021 08:53
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
MARGITA REIZNEROVÁ
She was born on May 5, 1945 in Malé Bukovce, a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. In 1945 the family moved to Prague. In the 1980s her family members established a music ensemble called ‘Perumos’, in which Reiznerová played a leading role as a solo singer. The ensemble performed not only music and dance but also drama. Reiznerová was at the centre of the Romani cultural development of the early 1990s: she was a founder of two Romani journals and the Association of Romani Writers in Czechoslovakia. In addition, she headed the ‘Romaňi čhib’ publishing house. In the mid-1990s, she emigrated from the Czech Republic to Belgium in response to growing racially motivated violence against Roma. The core of her work comprises poems and (autobiographical) short stories she published in a number of Romani as well as in collected volumes of her own works and anthologies. She died on September 16, 2020 in Lokeren, Belgium.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Margita Reiznerová general audience internal
Ján Berky Mrenica
created: 08. 07. 2021 08:16 modified: 08. 07. 2021 08:44
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
JÁN BERKY MRENICA SR.
He was born on May 11, 1939 in Očová. The respected violin virtuoso, composer, collector of the Slovak and Romani folklore. He studied at the State Conservatory in Bratislava, with professor Albín Vrteľ. As 19-year-old he became a member of the Slovak Folk-Art Collective (SĽUK); after Rinaldo Oláh left in 1980, he became the concert master. After the year 1990 he founded his own orchestras (first Violin Orchestra Bratislava, later the Devil’s Violin). In 1997, after the stroke, he learnt to write with his left hand. He wrote three books (There’s no such Violinist, Cheerfully with Violin around the World, Romani Songs and Proverbs), as well as several musical scores. His work was awarded with many prizes, among them The Messenger of Slovakia (1995), Pribina’s Cross (1997), Slovak Gold (1997). The Prize of Golden Recording was awarded to him for more than 5000 albums “The Violinist’s Dream” sold. He died on October 12, 2008 in Očová, his native town.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Ján Berky Mrenica general audience internal