{"id":3797,"count":0,"description":"M\u00e1ria Medveck\u00e1, born on October 11, 1914, in Medvedzie, and passing away on April 23, 1987, in Bratislava, was a prominent Slovak painter known for her contributions to Slovak Realist Impressionism.\n\nHailing from the esteemed Medveck\u00fd family of Medvedzie and Mal\u00fd Bysterec (Medveczky de Medveczei \u00e9s Kis Bisterczei), Medveck\u00e1 embarked on her artistic journey after completing her secondary education in Ko\u0161ice. She furthered her studies at the Pedagogical Academy in Bratislava before beginning her career as an educator in various towns including Zubrohlava, Tvrdo\u0161\u00edn, Jablonka, and N\u00e1mestov.\n\nFollowing the tumultuous years of the war, Medveck\u00e1 pursued advanced training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Prague under the mentorship of Professor \u017delibsk\u00fd. Deeply connected to her homeland of Orava and its inhabitants, she portrayed the region and its people in her artworks.\n\nDuring the 1950s, Medveck\u00e1 expanded her artistic repertoire to encompass themes aligned with socialist realism, depicting industrialization and the construction of a socialist society. Notably, she is renowned as the creator of the 10 K\u010ds banknote, circulated in Czechoslovakia from 1961 to 1988.\n\nA significant portion of Medveck\u00e1's oeuvre is housed in the Maria Medveckova Gallery, established in 1979 in Medvedz\u00ed, providing an enduring testament to her life's work and artistic legacy.","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/maria-medvecka-en\/","name":"M\u00e1ria MEDVECKA","slug":"maria-medvecka-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}