Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan

Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan (3 March 1898 – 1945) was a Jewish Slovak painter. His works, many destroyed during the Holocaust, are considered to be among the most original artistic expressions of the Slovak interwar period.

Biography He was born Arnold Weisz, to a Jewish family in Ujście, German Empire. When he was a child, his family moved to Dolný Kubín, in what is now Slovakia. From 1913 to 1917, he studied sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest. In 1917, he interrupted his studies to enlist in the army where he served on the Balkan Front in World War I. The next year, he resumed his studies in Berlin, where he became a part of the Expressionist art movement.

In 1923, he returned to Dolný Kubín, later relocating to Martin in 1934. He began using the name Kubínčan in 1937, and adopted the name Peter after being baptized in 1940. Weisz-Kubínčan died in 1945, during or shortly after being taken to a concentration camp, or Mauthausen. Some firsthand accounts by people who knew Weisz-Kubínčan claimed that he died in the camps, while others said that he fell ill and died after being liberated from the camps.