Photo, Print, Drawing Peasant Yard in Valaská Village. Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej
About this Item
Title
- Peasant Yard in Valaská Village.
Other Title
- Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej
Summary
- Sedliacky dvor vo Valaskej (Peasant yard in Valaská Village) is one of the oldest and most valuable treasures by Jozef Murgaš (1864-1929) in the collection of the Slovak National Library. This oil painting by Murgaš shows a light-filled village yard with a poor wooden cottage and farmyard buildings framing a courtyard with a cradle tripod at its center. Murgaš completed the painting in about 1895, while he was still a chaplain, after returning to Slovakia from his studies in Munich. The painting has no signature or copyright markings. Murgaš, who was a Roman Catholic priest, studied art in Budapest and Munich and created a number of altarpieces. He moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1896 to minister to local Slovaks and was a signatory to the 1918 Pittsburgh Agreement supporting the creation of Czechoslovakia. He is mostly remembered as an inventor, primarily as a pioneer of wireless telegraphy, a field in which he held a number of patents. He also invented the spinning reel for fishing rods.
Names
- Murgaš, Jozef, 1864-1929 Artist.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1895.
Headings
- - Slovakia--Banskobystrický kraj--Valaská
- - 1895
- - Cottages
- - Haystacks
- - Villages
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 painting : oil-based paint ; 420 x 307 millimeters.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Bill Kashatus, "Pioneer's Legacy Lives on," Citizensvoice.com, August 10, 2014. http://citizensvoice.com/arts-living/pioneer-s-legacy-lives-on-1.1732212. External
- - Original resource at: Slovak National Library.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670765
Online Format
- compressed data
- image