Gallery of Maria Medvecka
Painter Mária Medvecká (1914–1987) studied in Bratislava, Vienna and Prague, but connected her artistic life with her native Orava. Her work is today represented by a branch of the Orava Gallery in a 19th-century classicist mansion in the Medvedzie district of Tvrdošín, where a permanent exhibition has been open since 1979.
What will you see?
- over 250 oil paintings and drawings from the author's entire creative period
- the Orava landscape, villages and portraits of local people in its typical realistic presentation
- Interesting fact: Medvecká also designed the motif of the Czechoslovak ten-crown note (1961 – 1988)
- short-term exhibitions of contemporary art in the attic of the manor house
Good to know
- The gallery is only open during the summer season - check the dates before visiting.
- Allow about 45-60 minutes for the tour.
- It is only about 0.7 km from the Wooden Church of All Saints in Tvrdošín, both places can be combined into one walk.
Photo: Orava Gallery
- Even in bad weather
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