During the 1920s, the main city in Eastern Slovakia – which found itself in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia after the First World War – became an important cultural centre. The exhibition at the International Cultural Centre explores the phenomenon which developed in the multicultural atmosphere of interwar Košice.
The Slovak, Hungarian, Czech and Jewish mosaic was formed by local artists and those attracted to the city by its welcoming atmosphere and openness to current trends in European Culture, such as Konštantín Bauer, Alexander Bortnyik, Július Jakoby, Anton Jasusch, Eugen Krón and Gejza Schiller. The exhibition explores unknown facets of the arts from Slovakia, and explores the complex history of this part of Europe which made an indelible mark on the artistic and political choices made by the authors.
Items on display – paintings and engravings – will originate from public and private collections in Košice, Presov and Bratislava. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the East Slovak Gallery in Košice.
