Mikuláš Galanda

Mikuláš Galanda (4 May 1895 – 5 June 1938) was a painter and illustrator who was one of the most important pioneers and propagators of Slovak modern art.

From 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under August Brömse and Franz Thiele.

He was given approval to teach drawing in 1928, and in that year in Prague he met Maria Boudova, whom he married in 1931.

During 1930–1932, Galana and L. Fulla released four issues of their Private Letters, in which they had been talking over new progressive opinions in fine arts and its function in modern society.

He signed the manifesto of 300 cultural, artistic, scientific and religious representatives "Verní zostaneme!

In all his work, he strove to formulate the Slovakian artistic modernism on the basis of achievements in the development of European painting.