Medvecka, Maria

Born: 11/09/1914 Medvedzie, Dolny Kubin region
Died: 23/04/1987 Bratislava

Maria Medvecka, born in Dolny Kubin, became famous as an academic painter and national artist. After her final exams in Kosice, she studied at the Pedagogic Academy in Bratislava and became a teacher in Zubrohlava, Tvrdosin, Jablonka and Namestovo.

The beauties of the country, folk architecture, but mainly the figures and faces of people, filled her sketches. After the war she carried on studying at the Art Academy in Vienna and Prague.

From 1950, Medvecka worked in Orava. She painted scenes of Orava people and the big social changes of Orava until the liberation years. She was very familiar with the life of Orava people and practically became the painter of Orava.

Medvecka presented her works at art exhibitions home and abroad, and in 1949 organized exhibitions in many towns and companies in Slovakia. In 1961, she also exhibited her work in Berlin.

Medvecka is a representative of Slovak realism art, in the 20th century.

- Introduction

- Bernolak, Anton

- Caplovic, Vavrinec

- Radlinsky, Andrej

- Hattala, Martin

- Matuska, Janko

- Bohun, Peter

- Hviezdoslav, P.O.

- Kukucin, Martin

- Nadasi, Ladislav

- Florin, Theo

- Medvecka, Maria

- Vojtasak, Jan