Fraňo Štefunko [SEP] date of death
Fraňo Štefunko
Fraňo Štefunko (* 4 August 1903, Dudváh-Vlčkovce, Slovakia (then Austro-Hungary) – † 6 April 1974, Martin, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia)), was a sculptor, art pedagogue and editor. In 1932 after his studies of art in Prague he moved to Martin. He was the editor of a graphical section of Slovenské pohľady, instructor of a carpentry course of the Activity Cultivation Institute, as well as a conservator with the Slovak National Museum. Štefunko begins with his freelance work
his son Ľubor, who had deserted from the Austro-Hungarian Army.
His cause of death was given as pneumonia. In 1955, an art gallery bearing his name was opened in Liptovský Mikuláš and, three years later, a statue of him was dedicated in Bratislava. It was sculpted by Fraňo Štefunko, who specialized in figures from the Slovak Uprising.
Further reading.
- Vaclav Karel Vendl, "Peter Bohúň, slovenský malíř", self-published, Pardubice, 1922.
- "Peter M.