Ján Ladvenica was born in 1898 and died in 1947. He was an occasional painter and above all a scenographer and theatre decorator, active in 1928-1944 as the head of the Slovak National Theatre's set design. A certain theatricality quite naturally carried over into his painting, reminiscent of the crystal-clear pictorial world of folk painting on glass. The simple-minded beauty of his pictorial poetics was closest to a kind of modern variation of the folk tale, presenting the mythical national past in the position of the sweet idyll of mythical rural life