Artists of the Collection
Ladislav Zdvíhal
1913 Trebišov–1997 Trenčín
The painter of Trenčín and its surroundings, without whom the artistic life of the town would be hard to imagine. A native of Trebišov, he graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava (1927 – 1930, window-dressing department) and settled in Trenčín in 1941; he came fully to painting only in the 1950s under the guidance of Ľudovít Bránsky and above all Irena Slavinská. He started from a realist vision, his domain being the landscape in the changing seasons and moods; besides painting, drawing and printmaking he took part in more than ninety monumental-decorative commissions all over Slovakia.
Web umenia today records 194 of his works, mostly in the collection of the Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery in Trenčín, and his paintings regularly appear at Slovak auctions. Houses by the Water in our collection shows his more expressive, monotype side.
