Vladimír Oláh
created: 20. 02. 2024 07:51 modified: 20. 02. 2024 07:54
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Vladimír Oláh.
Vladimír Oláh, PhDr. was born on 22 May 1947 in Stropkov. He did not finish his studies at the Secondary Mining School because of finances. As a soldier by profession he started to study andragogy at the Faculty of Arts of the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice. In 1984 he received his doctorate. Since 1986 he has lived in Prague. In 1991 he founded a Roma Christian and educational association - Matica Roma. He was the first Romani author to be admitted to the Czech Writers' Association. In 2006 he was awarded the Milena Hübschmann Literary Prize for his contribution to Roma literature. He died on 28 January 2012 in Prague.
Sources of information:
www.lidovky.cz/relax/lide/zemrel-basnik-a-prekladatel-vlado-olah.A120129_180150_lide_sk
amariluma.romanokher.sk/encyclopedia/olah-vladimir-phdr/
recorded: 25. 10. 2023
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
