Slovakia Contemporary art
Christian Ludwig Attersee, born Christian Ludwig, is an Austrian media artist living in Vienna and Semmering in Lower Austria.
The artist took his middle name, Attersee, from the area where he spent his youth. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts and his work was characterized early on by flamboyant sexualization. He is known not only as a visual artist, but also as a musician, writer, object artist, designer, stage designer and film director. In the 1960s and 1970s he also created series on themes of food, everyday objects, beauty and cosmetics.
Attersee is known above all as one of the leading representatives of objective painting in Europe in the last 50 years. In the second half of the seventies he became the founder of the "New Austrian Painting". From 1990 to 2009, Atterse held a chair at the Vienna University of Applied Arts.
Ernest Rudolfovich Kontratovich (Russian: Эрнест Рудольфович Контратович) was a Ukrainian and Soviet artist of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter, teacher, one of the founders of the Transcarpathian school of painting.
Ernest Kontratovich developed his own direction of expressionism, reflecting the themes of nature, folklore and folk life of Transcarpathia. His works include landscapes and genre paintings. He was also one of the founders of the Transcarpathian Art Gallery. His paintings are kept in museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Slovakia and Russia.
Lena Lešková-Bubánová is a Slovak artist, graphic artist, draftsman and textile artist.
She graduated from the Prešov University of Applied Sciences, lives and works in Košice, and works in drawing, painting and graphic arts. Lešková-Bubánová has exhibited in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary and many other countries. In 1977, she received the main prize - the Gold Prize in the category of design at the prestigious Kutani International Decorative Ceramics Exhibition in Japan.
Jaroslav Vacek was a Czech and Slovak artist and sculptor.
Jaroslav Vacek was one of the leading representatives of post-war artistic modernism. His work focused on the human figure, creating strongly geometricized or abstracted torsos. Vacek mainly created sculptures for public spaces. His works are represented in the National Gallery in Prague and in many other exhibition galleries.
