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.
category: fine arts
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
Ján Cibuľa
created: 07. 07. 2021 11:20 modified: 07. 07. 2021 11:28
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 CIBUĽA
He was born on 1 January 1932 in Klenovec. In 1957 he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He worked as a doctor in Slovakia, in the former German Democratic Republic and since 1968 in Bern, Switzerland. In 1971, he co-organized the Roma Congress in Orpington, UK, where the International Roma Union (IRU) was formed, in 1978 became its president leading it for several years. He led a delegation of Roma representatives to the UN, where the IRU gained the observer status. In 1985, he became the holder of the Cultural Prize of the city of Bern, as the second foreigner in the history of the city, the first was Albert Einstein. In 2008 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, in the same year the Slovak Republic awarded him the Prize for Humanity. He was included in the Handbook of Slovak Exile Culture. He was roma doctor with Slavic roots, activist for Roma rights, one of the most famous person for Romani emancipation of 20th century. He died on August 18, 2013 in Bern.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Ján Cibuľa general audience internal
Dezider Banga
created: 07. 07. 2021 11:12 modified: 07. 07. 2021 11:13
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.
DEZIDER BANGA
He was born on August 24, 1939 in the village of Hradište, Partizánske district. He received his university education at Comenius University in Bratislava, at the Faculty of Arts, in the field of Slovak language and history. He taught at the grammar school in Trebišov for six years, and for the next ten years he was the dramaturg of the Literary Editorial Office of Slovak Television in Košice. From 1979 worked as the editor of the monthly Nová cesta in Bratislava, from 1986 to 1990 as its editor-in-chief. Later, as the chairman of the civic association Romani kultura, he was the editor-in-chief of the Roma monthly and the children's magazine Luluďi. Since 2009 he has been the holder of the Ľudovít Štúr III. Class for extraordinary merits for development in the field of culture, especially Roma literature.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Dezider Banga general audience internal
Rinaldo Oláh
created: 07. 07. 2021 10:59 modified: 07. 07. 2021 11:09
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.
RINALDO OLÁH
He was born on January 13, 1929, in Zvolenská Slatina. A talented violin virtuoso and composer, nicknamed the Slovak Paganini. In 1949 he was a co-founder of the Slovak Folk Art Collective (SĽUK), where for a total of 32 years, until 1981, he worked as its concert master. He was not formally educated in music, except for a basic level and stipend-enabled several months long stay at the Prague Conservatory. Until then, his arrangements were unprecedented in Slovak folklore and therefore widely discussed. His playing was technically perfect, his way of playing and the tone both very specific. To this day, his compositions have not been re-interpreted in their original quality. In 2000 he received the Award of the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic. In his honor, a competition of lead violinist is organized in Zvolenská Slatina. He died on June 1, 2006 in Bratislava.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Rinaldo Oláh general audience internal
A Family
created: 25. 06. 2021 08:38 modified: 25. 06. 2021 08:44
Family painting. The painting was created by Patrik Bolvan from the Primary School in Jarovnice, no. 192. The painting is on an A3 drawing, created in 2017. The painting depicts a mother, father, daughter and cat. Geometric shapes are dominant in painting. 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.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Patrik Bolvan general audience internal
Smiling Horse
created: 25. 06. 2021 08:21 modified: 25. 06. 2021 08:28
Horse head painting. The painting was created by Patrik Bolvan from the Primary School in Jarovnice, no. 192. The painting is on an A3 drawing, created in 2017. The painting shows a horse's head with a smile. 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.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Patrik Bolvan general audience internal
