Slovakia - Museum of Andy Warhol

Vanesa Venglárová - the pupil



Museum of Modern Art of Andy Warhol is in Medzilaborce. It formed on 1 September 1991 as the first in the world and still the only one in Europe.


In addition to the exhibition activities is dominated in the museum presentation, education, counseling, scientific research activities in the field of contemporary art, museumeducation.
John Warhola, Michal Michal Cihlar were the main initiators of the museum.



Warhol was born as Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was immigrant of Ruthenian ethnicity from the village Miková in the Austro-Monarchy (now northeastern Slovakia). His brothers John and Paul were born even in today's
Slovakia.


Artistic talent he showed early, he studied industrial (commercial) art at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh.



After graduating in 1949 he moved to New York and began a he started career as a magazine illustrator in advertising. He became famous primarily with ink paintings of shoes in the distinctive style.