Dušan Jurkovič

Dušan Samo Jurkovič (23 August 1868, Turá Lúka – 21 December 1947, Bratislava) was a Slovak architect, furniture designer, artist and ethnographer.

One of the best-known promoters of Slovak art in 20th century Czechoslovakia, he is remembered mostly due to his projects of numerous World War I cemeteries in Galicia and thanks to his wooden works of spa complex in Luhačovice and mountain cottage hotel Maměnka and canteen Libušín in Pustevny.

His grandfather was Samuel Jurkovič, the founder of the first Farmers Alliance in Slovakia, his uncle was Jozef Miloslav Hurban, a slovak writer, poet, priest and patriot, his father was a notary and his mother was a folk art connoisseur.

He authored approximately 35 war cemeteries near Gorlice in Galicia (now Poland), most of them heavily influenced by local Lemko (Rusyn) folk art and carpentry.

Among the best known of his later works is the tombs of Jozef Miloslav Hurban and Milan Rastislav Štefánik, monument to Slovak National Uprising, and the cable car station at Lomnický štít in the High Tatras mountains.