Sculpture Robert Kühmayer and Bratislava

Place: Mirbach Palace
Date: 27.09.2007 - 25.11.2007
Curator: Zelmira Grajciarova

Exhibition Sculptor Robert Kühmayer and Bratislava is already the fourth in a row, after exhibitions of Viktor Tilgner, Jan Fadrusz and Alojz Rigele, monographic presentation devoted to personalities of sculpting at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century on the grounds of the City Gallery of Bratislava.

Sculpting creation of the Bratislana native R. Kühmayer (1883 – 1972) was connected mainly with the cultural environment of Bratislava, even though in 1945 he emigrated to Vienna. Kühmayer created some monumental artworks. To the most famous ones belongs the Ducks’ fountain from the year 1914 on the Safarikovo Square and the sculpture of Piestany’s Crutch-breaker from the year 1933.

Since the nineteen twenties the main position in his work had small creation – Portraits, but mainly female nude. It is a paradox that this exhibition is his first independent presentation in Bratislava, despite the fact, that together with A.Rigele (1879 – 1940) and Jozef Arpad Murman (1889 – 1944) he belonged to the most important personalities not only of Bratislava’s, but also Slovak sculpting.

Zelmira Grajciarova, curator of exhibition