Jozef Hanula

The permanent exhibition presents 5 main areas of Hanula’s work from the gallery’s collection, which chronologically trace the painter’s creative beginnings, development and peak of work at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the last creative phase – sacred works. The exhibition includes an interactive map that serves as a guide to the places of Jozef Hanula’s sacred works – these are marked sacred objects in which the author applied murals: there are more than 60 places in Slovakia, two of the works were also made in Hungary and several in neighboring Poland. The accompanying projection presents works from the gallery’s collections and archive, as well as an overview of sacred works.

1. NAKED STUDENT TIMES
Sketches, drawings, studies from the period of his work in Budapest and Munich.

2. URBAN AND FOLK GENRE
Children’s and women’s portraits, works with folk themes and portraits of representatives of the city of Spišská Nová Ves.

3. FAMILY AND COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS
Portraits of family members, close friends and portraits to order.

4. SACRED ART AND REALIZATIONS
Sketches and designs for realizations of mural paintings.

5. BIOGRAPHY
Biography of the author, family photographs and interesting archival materials.

Author Profile
Jozef Hanula (1863 – 1944), a native of Liptovské Troch Sliačy, lived and worked in Spiš and in the town of Spišská Nová Ves from 1900 to 1944. The gallery’s collection includes 72 paintings, drawings, sketches and studies that illustrate the development of Hanula’s work throughout his entire creative period. Another 265 items are included in the archive from the author’s estate, where the majority are designs and sketches for murals. Hanula’s work influenced the history of the development of Slovak fine art in the early 20th century and became a connecting link between Peter Michal Bohúň and Jozef Božetech Klemens – artists of romanticism with elements of realism, representatives of the so-called national romanticism, which highlighted national ideals and the national school presenting new Slovak artistic tendencies in the spirit of realism of the late 19th century (authors: Martin Benka, Janko Alexy, Ľudovít Fulla, Mikuláš Galanda).

Stála expozícia je realizovaná vďaka finančnej podpore mimoriadneho grantu Košického samosprávneho kraja – Terra Incognita 2013.