Cyprián Majerník

Cyprián Majerník (1909 - 1945) was a Slovak painter who worked in Prague; associated with the "Generation of 1909". He had his primary education in Pezinok then, in 1924, attended the secondary school in Košice, where he studied economics. After deciding on art as a career, he went to Bratislava to take private lessons from the Expressionist painter Gustáv Mallý. After acquiring the basics, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, where he studied under Josef Loukota and Jakub Obrovský.