To Boyfriend
Slovak National Gallery
To Boyfriend is a painting by Jozef Hanula, a Slovak painter working in a Realist manner across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hanula is remembered in Slovak art history chiefly for genre and portrait subjects drawn from rural and domestic life, the everyday scenes and figures of ordinary Slovak villages and households rather than historical, mythological or aristocratic subject matter. Slovak painting of this period developed largely outside the main Western European exhibition, publishing and collecting circuits, which has left painters such as Hanula with comparatively little presence in English-language art-historical writing, despite the domestic significance many of them hold within Slovak art history itself. The painting is held in the Slovak National Gallery.
Where it is held
Held at Slovak National Gallery.
The painting is held in the Slovak National Gallery.
Common questions
Who was Jozef Hanula?
He was a Slovak painter working in a Realist style in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for genre scenes and portraits drawn from Slovak rural and domestic life.
Why is there so little written about Jozef Hanula outside Slovakia?
Slovak painting of this period developed largely apart from the main Western European exhibition and publishing networks, which has left many of its painters, Hanula included, with a limited presence in general English-language art history despite their standing within Slovak art history itself.
Where is To Boyfriend held today?
It is held in the Slovak National Gallery.