Gustáv Mallý

From 1894 to 1896, he received his first artistic training in Prague with Karel Záhorský [cs], a Czech portrait and mural painter.

In 1903, together with Jaroslav Augusta and Emil Pacovský [cs], he founded a group of Hungarian-Slovakian artists, based in Žilina, and organized their first exhibition.

His notable students included Ľudovít Fulla, Koloman Sokol, Ján Mudroch [sk], Ján Želibský [cs], Cyprián Majerník, Lea Mrázová [sk] and Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková.

In 1941, thanks to a nomination by his fellow artist Martin Benka, he was appointed head of the drawing and painting department at the Slovak University of Technology.

He was promoted to Professor of visual education at Comenius University in 1946,[2] but was forced to resign three years later, due to poor health.