Cyprián Majerník

Cyprián Majerník (24 November 1909 – 4 July 1945) was a Slovak painter. He worked in Prague and was associated with the "Generation of 1909".

Biography

Majerník was born on 24 November 1909 in Veľké Kostoľany. He had his primary education in Pezinok then, in 1924, attended the secondary school in Košice, where he studied economics. After deciding on art as a career, he went to Bratislava to take private lessons from the Expressionist painter Gustáv Mallý. After acquiring the basics, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where he studied under and Jakub Obrovský. Upon graduation, he settled in Prague.

In 1932, Majerník took a brief trip to Paris, where he came under the influence of Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico.

Selected paintings