When Czech painter Jan Hala was passing through the Slovak village Vazec in 1923, he was struck by colours of folk costumes locals used to wear on Sunday to church. Similarly to Gaugin in French Polynesia, Hala decided to spend rest of his life in Vazec. During WWII, locals built a house to their painter and when he died in 1959, he bequeathed all his artworks to gallery in nearby Liptovsky Mikulas on the condition it would be preserved and displayed in a permanent exhibition. Hala’s family moved away after he died, having sold the house to the state. Since 1979, Hala’s legacy was displayed in the house. In 2005, all the pictures were stolen. In 2021, contemporary art returned to the house of Jan Hala. If you want to know more about robbery as well as the big fire, listen to this:
VAŽEC gold in Jan Hála house Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.
